unRAID Server Release 6.2.0-beta18 Available
NOTE: PLEASE READ THIS POST IN ITS ENTIRETY BEFORE UPGRADING! There are special instructions for taking advantage of new features as well as one-time procedures you may have to perform with virtual machines / docker containers.
While every effort has been made to ensure no data loss, THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE.... use at your own risk...
To upgrade your server to this release, navigate to Plugins/Install Plugin, copy this text into the box and click Install:
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Not exactly. Refer to this paper:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/raid6.pdf
Look at section 4. There it talks about possibility of using the algebra to detect which disk is wrong in a single-disk corruption case. However note this:
For this reason, we have not added this feature. Perhaps could be added in the future.
This is absolutely not true. I think this is documented somewhere, but, when you have both parity disks, you absolutely cannot