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    SubjectRe: Two RAID1 mirrors are faster than three
    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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