2008/9/30 Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com:
BTW, there is - even with current kernels - no speed gain in using RAID1 - see http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects/Raid1ReadBalancing .
I don't think I believe that - you can see the reads alternating drives by watching the lights.
Indeed, there is a patch linux-2.6-dm-mirroring.patch in Centos5.2 kernel sources which implements a proper body of choose-mirror() function.