On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 15:09, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Michael Stone writes:
>
> > I still don't follow that. Why would the RAID level matter? IOW, are you
> > actually wanting 2 spares, or are you just stick with that because you
> > need a factor of two disks for your mirrors?
>
> RAID 10 needs pairs.. so we can either have no spares or 2 spares.
Spares are placed in service one at a time. You don't need 2 spares for
RAID 10, trust me.
