From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Brown Subject: RE: Scalability of MD raid 1 mirror devices Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:11:35 +1100 Message-ID: <87vba7vcqg.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> References: <98ad0e44-1ac1-4451-a3d3-0a48f3a1d9e7@default> <9b3ee99a-b29d-4e3f-8fba-a8346c3196ea@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <9b3ee99a-b29d-4e3f-8fba-a8346c3196ea@default> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ankur Bose , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: Suresh Babu Kandukuru List-Id: linux-raid.ids --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 QW5rdXIgQm9zZSA8YW5rdXIuYm9zZUBvcmFjbGUuY29tPiB3cml0ZXM6DQoNCj4gSGksIGl0IHNl ZW1zIGxpa2UgdGhpcyBpcyB2ZXJ5IGFjdGl2ZSBncm91cCAsIEkgZG9uJ3Qgc2VlIGFueSByZWFz b24gd2h5IGFueW9uZSBpcyBub3QgcmVwbHlpbmcgdG8gdGhlIGJlbG93IG1haWwuDQo+ICANCj4N 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