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On Jan 19, 2007, at 12:42 AM, Vulpes Velox wrote:

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> When ZFS comes available, I plan to actually run it across multiple
> mirrors. It has built in JBOD, but it does not do mirroring. It just
> does stripping.

I think you misunderstand ZFS.  It is robust against multiple disk  
failures.  It doesn't do full disk mirroring, but does place multiple  
copies of data on multiple drives.


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