> The raid1e type probably didn't exist when Neil Brown came up with the algorithm. You are probably right. > He should have patented it though... Maybe... > Maybe he started out with the idea to create a raid10, but didn't want the complexity of managing sub-arrays so decided just to redistribute chunk copies instead and then it took off from there. Yes. I didn't want to sound harsh to him. I am VERY grateful for his outstanding work. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos