Hi,

Recently I found that manpage of mkfs is saying minimal device number for RAID5 and RAID6 is 2 and 3.

Personally speaking, although I understand that RAID5/6 only requires 1/2 devices for parity stripe, it is still quite strange behavior.

Under most case, user use raid5/6 for striping AND parity. For 2 devices RAID5, it's just a more expensive RAID1.

IMHO it's better to warn user about 2 devices RAID5 or 3 devices RAID6.

Any comment is welcomed.

Thanks,
Qu


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