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" out. Raid 6 means you can loose 2 working disks, but can continue running, but if 1 more working disk failed during a re-building spare you're dead in the water, unless it was the rebuilding spare in which case you're still running. that lost rebuilding. across You loose 2 drives worth of space to the redundancy, no matter the layout or number of raid6 disks. Ideally the parity should be spread across all the disks as apposed to specific parity drives, at least as far as linux mdadm is concerned... it may ..."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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