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At 23:49 18/08/2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> Raid5 with two bit ECC (sometimes called raid6)
>
>I thought RAID-6 was RAID-5 with two identical parity disks.  Not so?

CA:QA says that RAID 6 is P+Q redundancy (ie, two different parity
disks).  I'm going to hope that Patterson knows what he's talking
about. :-)

Colin Percival