Double-parity RAID, or RAID-6, is the de facto industry standard
forstorage; when I started talking about triple-parity RAID for ZFS
earlierthis year, the need...
Double-parity RAID, or RAID-6, is the de facto industry standard
forstorage; when I started talking about triple-parity RAID for ZFS
earlierthis year, the need wasn't always immediately obvious.
Double-parity RAID, ofcourse, provides protection from up to two
failures (data corruption or the wholedrive) within a RAID stripe.
The necessity of triple-parity RAIDarises from the observation that
while hard drive capacity has roughly followedKryder's law,
doubling annually, hard...
Double-parity RAID, or RAID-6, is the de facto industry standard
forstorage; when I started talking about triple-parity RAID for ZFS
earlierthis year, the need wasn't always immediately...