Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 May 2003 16:56:24 +0200 | From | Lars Marowsky-Bree <> | Subject | Re: Two RAID1 mirrors are faster than three |
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On 2003-05-12T17:40:18, Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp> said:
> that sounds like a super special featuer never needed in Software (!!) > Raid thing (IMvHO).
No.
3way mirroring is actually rather useful. You can take a failure and _still_ be fully redundant (ie, like a hot-spare, just already synced). In theory, you could even read from three drives and correct errors on one drive.
Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
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