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'sunit' is used with 'swidth'?

The RAID controller in one of my machines uses a "strip element" size, 
expressed in bytes, allowed values seem to be limited to powers 
of 512*2^*[1..11] (512B up to 1MB) (though as previously noticed, although
xfs's manpages claims to allow one expresses sizes with the unit 'm', it
only permits .25m (256k),  I guess I never tried seeing if the command line 
would take floating point ;^) ).

I believe 'su' would be set to the 'strip element size' (in k or m).

Then, for RAID 1 (mirror) would 'sw'==1?  Would setting the  su/sw  value
for a RAID 1 actually matter in any way?  Ie, technically -- it would 
fill in numbers for OS book-keeping, but wouldn't change anything in 
terms of performance or layout, vs. 'physically' -- where it could change
disk layout or performance?

At RAID 0, I'd guess  sw==2?

In RAID 5, would it be   sw  == #Disks-1?  So even w/6 disks, it still only
uses 1 disk for parity and  sw == 5?  

I wonder what becomes a max-safe RAID 5 size? (or is the number of parity
disks a settable option with RAID 5?)

Thanks!...
Linda