On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Matthew Wakeling <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>>
>> RAID6 is basically RAID5 with a hot spare already built into the
>> array.
>
> On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Pierre C wrote:
>>
>> As others said, RAID6 is RAID5 + a hot spare.
>
> No. RAID6 is NOT RAID5 plus a hot spare.
The original phrase was that RAID 6 was like RAID 5 with a hot spare
ALREADY BUILT IN.