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by ilyt 1034 days ago
> So the data will occupy the same amount of space and parity as it did before.

So you lose data capacity compared to "dumb" RAID6 on mdadm.

If you expand RAID6 from 4+2 to 5+2, you go from using 33.3% data for parity to 28.5% on parity

If you expand RAIDZ from 4+2 to 5+2, your new data will use 28.5%, but your old (which is majority, because if it wasn't you wouldn't be expanding) would still use 33.3% on parity.