Re: Two RAID1 mirrors are faster than three

Clemens Schwaighofer
2003-05-12T04:23:31Z

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Chuck Ebbert wrote:

> Add the third disk back into the array:
> # raidhotadd /dev/md21 /dev/hde9
> [rebuilt 3000MiB in 313s == (3000+3000)/313 == 19MiB/s throughput]

Why three drives in a Raid1? Raid one is just mirror, or is the third
drive like a "hot" replace drive if one of the others fail?

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