On 18 Feb 2015, at 15:19 , David Brownlee <a...@absd.org> wrote: > 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 :)
Starting testing it and bug report any problems found could be a start at least… /P
