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SubjectRe: RAID-6 support in kernel?
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 04:52:16PM +0200, Kasper Dupont wrote:

> > He was thinking "mirror", not "stripe". Mirror of 2 RAID-5 arrays (would
> > be probably called RAID-15 (when there is a RAID-10 for mirrored stripe
> > arrays)), can withstand any two disks failing anytime.
>
> It can actually withstand any *three* disks failing anytime.

Yes, you're right.

> > Even more for
> > certain combinations. But it is terribly inefficient.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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