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From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
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To: Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk>, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: RAID-6 support in kernel?
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On Monday 03 June 2002 16:52, Kasper Dupont wrote:
> Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > He was thinking "mirror", not "stripe". Mirror of 2 RAID-5 arrays (would
> > be probably called RAID-15 (when there is a RAID-10 for mirrored stripe
> > arrays)), can withstand any two disks failing anytime.
>
> It can actually withstand any *three* disks failing anytime.

still - I don't want to waste that money

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