From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: My Dad suggests a redundant copies plugin
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:48:04 -0700
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This would not be (at least in theory) useful for RAID devices, but for
a user with a single disk drive, it might be useful to have a plugin
that creates two (or N) copies, and tries to allocate the two copies at
opposite ends of the disk.  Anyone out there still looking for a plugin
to write?

Hans