From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@TU-Ilmenau.DE>
Subject: Re: Propose of enhancement of raid1 driver
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:30:48 +0200
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Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com> wrote:
> But what still isn't clear, why can't raid1 use something like the raid10 
> offset=2 mode?

RAID1 has equal data on all mirrors, so sooner or later you have to seek
somewhere - no matter how you layout the data on each mirror.


regards
   Mario
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