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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