Re: RAID Level 6

[Fredrik Pettai <pettai%nordu.net@localhost>]

On 17 Feb 2015, at 18:13 , Greg Oster <oster%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 18:40:03 +0100
> BERTRAND Joël <joel.bertrand%systella.fr@localhost> wrote:
> 
>> 	Hello,
>> 
>> 	I've seen that sys/dev/raidframe contains some code for raid
>> level 6 but I haven't seen any information about raid 6. Is this raid
>> level usable ?
> 
> Once upon a time I asked a similar question to the original RAIDframe
> developers, and IIRC the answer was 'the code is there, and should be
> mostly working, but hasn't been well tested'.
> 
> I've not tested it at all either, and at this point would not recommend
> it for any important data.  (Feel free to experiment with it, and let
> us/me know the results though!)

Is it enabled by default, or does it need to be recompiled to get it working?

/P