On Saturday 27 March 2010 05:07, John R Pierce wrote: > for all practical purposes its the same thing. if it was really > stripe then mirror, a naive mirror handler would think it would have to > remirror both drives when one half of one of the stripesets failed and > was replaced. but in fact, the mirror handlres tend to be well aware > of whats going on. mirror 0+1 aand stripe that with mirrored 2+3, > and its really all the same the native raid10 in newer mdraid is > cleaner because you don't end up with extra partial volume metadevices... Thank you kindly for your reply. -- Regards Robert Linux User #296285 http://counter.li.org