Hugo Mills posted on Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:09:58 +0000 as excerpted: > RAID-0: min 2 devices > RAID-10: min 4 devices > RAID-5: min 2 devices (I think) > RAID-6: min 3 devices (I think)
RAID-5 should be 3-device minimum (each stripe consisting of two data segments and one parity segment, each on a different device). And RAID-6 similarly four devices (two data and two parity). Perhaps it's time I get that wiki account and edit some of this stuff myself... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
