At 2003-03-10T16:39:36Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hmmm.  By definition, RAID1 is "mirroring".

Correct.

> Never heard of putting any more than 2 disks in a mirrorset.

Mirroring can have a nice boost for read access.  I'd imagine that such a
setup would be useful for something like ftp.cdrom.com, where many
simultaneous read requests (but almost no write requests) are being
answered.

> Never even thought of it, actually.  With more than 2 disks, I'd
> automatically go with RAID5.

I guess it depends on your needs.  Given the money for such a setup, RAID1+0
(or RAID10, whatever you want to call it) would be faster and possibly more
robust; as long as at least one drive from each stripe survives, the whole
filesystem is still available.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
In Googlis non est, ergo non est.

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