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NoneNone>>> mirroring for fault tolerance and a little added read performance
>>> here and there (depends on application).
>> I disagree.  Mirroring only protects you against drive failures and not
>> human error.
> And I disagree with that.

With the fact that it's not necessarily stupid to not use mirroring?

> Mirroring *definitely* makes both reads and writes go faster, due
> to parallelism.

AFAIK that's not true for writes (they may even slow down slightly).
But in any case, this does not contradict the fact that the kind of
protection it offers is different from the one offered by using backup.


        Stefan


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