Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Jun 2002 16:55:49 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: RAID-6 support in kernel? |
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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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