MD RAID10: Improve redundancy for 'far' and 'offset' algorithms (part 2)
MD RAID10: Improve redundancy for 'far' and 'offset' algorithms (part 2)
This patch addresses raid arrays that have a number of devices that cannot
be evenly divided by 'far_copies'. (E.g. 5 devices, far_copies = 2) This
case must be handled differently because it causes that last set to be of
a different size than the rest of the sets. We must compute a new modulo
for this last set so that copied chunks are properly wrapped around.
Example use_far_sets=1, far_copies=2, near_copies=1, devices=5:
"far" algorithm
dev1 dev2 dev3 dev4 dev5
==== ==== ==== ==== ====
[ A B ] [ C D E ]
[ G H ] [ I J K ]
...
[ B A ] [ E C D ] --> nominal set of 2 and last set of 3
[ H G ] [ K I J ] []'s show far/offset sets
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>