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>   How does raid 1 with an odd number of disks earn the distinction of being
> called RAID?If you lose one disk, you've lost data. Any disk is a single 
> point of
> failure. What's the point?

You're confusing raid1 (mirroring) with raid0 (striping)

btrfs raid1 is more like raid1-e, where all data is redundantly stored on any 2 
disks, selected from N disks in the set.

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