swidth in RAID

aurfalien aurfalien at gmail.com
Sun Jun 30 13:43:12 CDT 2013


Hi,

I understand swidth should = #data disks.

And the docs say for RAID 6 of 8 disks, that means 6.

But parity is distributed and you actually have 8 disks/spindles working for you and a bit of parity on each.

So shouldn't swidth equal disks in raid when its concerning distributed parity raid?

- aurf


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