From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Hofman Subject: Re: Rotating RAID 1 Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:34:46 +0200 Message-ID: <4E4A0F86.6010907@ivitera.com> References: <4E497FB5.3030109@ivitera.com> <4E49849E.4030604@ivitera.com> <20110816084251.2d8e7831@notabene.brown> <20110816095517.757afc07@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110816095517.757afc07@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=F4me_Poulin?= , linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids Dne 16.8.2011 01:55, NeilBrown napsal(a): > > Also, it doesn't have to be a linear stack. It could be a binary tree > though that might take a little more care to construct. Since our backup server being a critical resource needs redundancy itself, we are running two degraded RAID1s in parallel, using two internal drives. The two alternating external drives plug into the corresponding bitmap-enabled RAID1. Pavel.