Supporting Raid 6, 10 and more than 4 disks

[vaishraj]

Hi:
@007revad, thank you so much for the original script. This was immensely helpful.

I have made some code changes (for personal needs) to support Raid 6 and increasing the number of disks from 4 (as I have 8 NVME disks).

As part of that, I have tried to make the script as generic as possible to handle any number of disks, which has resulted in smaller size as well. I have validated it only for RAID 6 and 8 disks and I have since made changes that I have validated only using the 'test' mode.

I am happy to share the code back as pull request or send it across directly for this team to validate / incorporate.

Thanks,
Raj

[007revad]

Hi Raj,

Yes, I'd like to see what improvements you've done.

When I changed the script from supporting 2 drives to support 4 drives I was lazy and just duplicated the 2nd drive code for drives 3 and 4. I always intended refracturing the code but never got around to it.

Can you make a pull request to my develop branch?

[vaishraj]

Dave,

Thank you. I have created a pull request. Hope it helps others,

Raj