Hi: I readed the information about raid10 near copy in man mdadm. It is: 'n' signals 'near' copies. Multiple copies of one data block are at similar offsets in different devices. But I think this wrong. If raid10 had five disks and near copy is equal three. The layout like: 5 disks -------------------- A1 A1 A1 A2 A2 A2 A3 A3 A3 A4 But the copies of datablock A2 are not at similar offset in different device. -------------- kedacomkernel 2012-04-16 -- 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