[mythtv-users] OT: RAID6?

[Marco Nelissen]

>Anybody used RAID6 (perhaps on a mythtv system) ? I can enable the
>option to compile a module for it but there isnt much documentation
>out there about setup and use.
>
>I was wondering if upgrade from raid5 to 6 was possible, apparently 6
>has better performance so I'd like to make active use of my hot spare
>instead of leaving it running but idle.

RAID6 does not have better performance than RAID5. In fact it probably
has worse performance (assuming a software implementation). It is more
robust than RAID5 though.