NeilBrown wrote: > The "industry standard" DDF format allows for a stripe/offset layout > where data is duplicated on different stripes. e.g. > > A B C D > D A B C > E F G H > H E F G > > (columns are drives, rows are stripes, LETTERS are chunks of data). Presumably, this is the case for --layout=f2 ? If so, would --layout=f4 result in a 4-mirror/striped array? Also, would it be possible to have a staged write-back mechanism across multiple stripes? Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html