From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
Subject: Re: Help needed - RAID5 recovery from Power-fail
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 16:47:17 +0300
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Neil Brown wrote:
> 2 devices in a raid5??  Doesn't seem a lot of point it being raid5
> rather than raid1.

Wouldn't a 2-dev raid5 imply a striped block mirror (i.e faster) rather than 
a raid1 duplicate block mirror (i.e. slower) ?

Thanks!

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Al