On Dec 23, 2010, at 10:53 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> I've run 45 drive software raid arrays, and I had multiple instances of 
> double drive failures over a couple years of operation. As a result, with 
> that size of an array, I won't do anything short of double-redundancy. I 
> don't know if you can configure raid10 to keep 3 copies of everything or not.

In the mdadm manpage under --layout, it specifies that the default is 
--layout=n2, which is two copies, and you can change the number to a maximum of 
the number of devices in the array.  So, --layout=n3 would get you three 
copies, etc.

Gregory

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