> you louse the lot, with real mirroring, you shouldnt, well it's an
> expensive thing to do with two disks, as you have to louse at least the
> size of a disk to the array to garentee no data loss on the failure of
> one disk, with 7 disks, it's not as bad)
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Yes, but this requires RAID-5, 7 disks = 6 for data, one for parity.
_mirroring_ ALLWAYS requires the double amount of disks, thats why
its called mirroring :)
Cheers Lauri.