Re: Is RAID6 supported by Debian?

["Damon L. Chesser" <damon@damtek.com>]

Mark Allums wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 04/28/08 17:47, Mark Allums wrote:
> >> Is RAID6 supported by Linux/GNU/Debian/Etch/Lenny/Sid, at all?
> >>
> >> Can't find any info on this, other than unhelpful references.
> >>
> >> Wikipedia was a bust.  Google references only seem to indicate that it
> >> is still experimental.
> >
> > Do you mean the md software RAID driver?
>
> Yes, I mean software RAID.
>
>
> >
> >> Any suggestions?
> >
> > A horrendously expensive hardware RAID card with battery-backup and
> > lots of cache would do the trick...
>
>
> Any *helpful* suggestions?
Oh, Helpful suggestions!

damon@dam-main:~$ cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md0 : active raid1 hdg6[0] hdh6[1]
     76613888 blocks [2/2] [UU]

So, since I have mdadm installed and I am running raid1, the cat results 
in listing raid6 as a possible "Personality" I would say it works just 
fine.  YMMV.  Try it.

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