On 07/12/17 22:35, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> (Oh - and md raid-5/6 also mix data and parity, so the same holds true >> > there.)
> Ok, wasn’t aware of that. I thought I read in a ZFS article that this were a > special thing. Say you've got a four-drive raid-6, it'll be something like data1 data2 parity1 parity2 data3 parity3 parity4 data4 parity5 parity6 data5 data6 The only thing to watch out for (and zfs is likely the same) if a file fits inside a single chunk it will be recoverable from a single drive. And I think chunks can be anything up to 64MB. Cheers, Wol
