David Brown wrote:
You are aware, of course, that if you take your 16 drives and use
"-n8", you will get a total disk space equivalent to two drives. It
would be very resistant to drive failures, but /very/ poor space
efficiency. It would also be very fast for reads, but very slow for
writes (as everything must be written 8 times).
It's your choice - md is very flexible. But I think an eight-way
mirror would be considered somewhat unusual.
What would be particularly interesting is if I can do -n4 and configure
things in a way that insures that each of those 4 is on a different one
of my 4 boxes (4 boxes, 4 disks each).
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In<fnord> practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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