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Subject: Re: Software raid VS hardware raid
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There seems to be one more advantage to gmirror
If i understood correctly

gmirror label -v -b split -s 2048 data da0 da1 da2

will create a tripple mirror raid 1, that is
triple redundancy, which is hardly available on any hardware raid.

Am i correct here?

Also, does anyone know how to choose split threshold (-s 2048) correctly ?

Artem