On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 10:05:28AM +0100, Thomas Bellman wrote: > On 2011-03-01 19:39, Chris Mason wrote: > > > We'll have raid56, but it won't be variable stripe size. There will be > > one stripe size for data and one for metadata but that's it. > > Will the stripe *width* be configurable? If I have something like a > Sun Thor with 48 drives, I would probably not be entirely comfortable > having 46 drives data and 2 drives parity; too little redundancy for > my tastes. 2 drives parity per 10 drives data is more like what I > would run, but that would of course be an individual choice. It's something that's been asked for, but isn't supported by the current (proposed) RAID-5/6 code, as far as I'm aware. Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- Try everything once, except incest and folk-dancing. ---
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