[geeks] RAID quirks and terminology

[Sandwich Maker]

" " From: Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
" " 
" " > On Jun 15, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Mouse <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG> wrote:
" " >
" " > What did it do if you (say) tried to mirror between a stripe of 3 disks
" " > of size 2X and a stripe of 2 disks of size 3X?
" " 
" " That should result in a 2X mirror across two stripe sets, with 1X wasted space
" " on the 3X stripe set, right?
" 
" i assume mouse meant 2x larger vs. 3x smaller, so that the stripes
" were equal in size.  in principle, mirroring 2 equal metadisks
" shouldn't be a problem...

both stripes should be 6x, so you should get a mirror of 6x,
regardless of component disks.
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