> that sounds like a super special featuer never needed in Software (!!)
> Raid thing (IMvHO).
No.
3way mirroring is actually rather useful. You can take a failure and
_still_ be fully redundant (ie, like a hot-spare, just already synced).
In theory, you could even read from three drives and correct errors on
one drive.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
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