On 17 February 2015 at 18:30, BERTRAND Joël <joel.bertr...@systella.fr> wrote: > Greg Oster a écrit : > >> On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 18:40:03 +0100 >> BERTRAND Joël <joel.bertr...@systella.fr> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I've seen that sys/dev/raidframe contains some code for raid >>> level 6 but I haven't seen any information about raid 6. Is this raid >>> level usable ? >> >> >> Once upon a time I asked a similar question to the original RAIDframe >> developers, and IIRC the answer was 'the code is there, and should be >> mostly working, but hasn't been well tested'. >> >> I've not tested it at all either, and at this point would not recommend >> it for any important data. (Feel free to experiment with it, and let >> us/me know the results though!) >> >> Later... >> >> Greg Oster >> > > Strange. Raid level 5 is now obsolete and should be replaced by > level 6. NetBSD should provide level 6 in raidframe...
Sounds like an excellent project for an interested party to work through the RAID6 support in RAIDframe (or even work on the NetBSD ZFS port :)
