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.


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