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Subject: [Discuss] On Btrfs raid and odd-count disks
From: blu at nedharvey.com (Edward Ned Harvey (blu))
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:14:21 +0000
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> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of
> 
> Its funny, but I never considered an odd number of drives as viable for
> raid1.

What about a 3-way mirror?
More appropriately, look up raid-1e.  It's a better description of btrfs raid-1.

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