Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Lauri Tischler" <> | Date | Sat, 6 Jul 1996 15:30:56 GMT +2 | Subject | Re: Mirroring and/or duplexing partitions |
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Anno Domini 6 Jul 96 at 12:34, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote:
> you louse the lot, with real mirroring, you shouldnt, well it's an > expensive thing to do with two disks, as you have to louse at least the > size of a disk to the array to garentee no data loss on the failure of > one disk, with 7 disks, it's not as bad) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Yes, but this requires RAID-5, 7 disks = 6 for data, one for parity.
_mirroring_ ALLWAYS requires the double amount of disks, thats why its called mirroring :)
Cheers Lauri.
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