Re: Triple parity and beyond

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Hi Piergiorgio,

> In RAID-6 (as per raid6check) there is an easy way
> to verify where an HDD has incorrect data.
> I suspect, for each 2 parity block it should be
> possible to find 1 error (and if this is true, then
> quad parity is more attractive than triple one).
Yes. The theory say that with quad parity is possible to find 2
errors. Or find 1 error when running in degraded mode with 2 missing
disks.

But yep, the problem is how to do in a fast way. I don't know enough
the field to answer this.

Ciao,
Andrea
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