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From: aad@nwnet.net (Anthony Talltree)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Virtual file systems (striping) on BSDI 3.0x86?
Date: 9 May 1997 18:13:40 -0700
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>What are the consequences of a single disk failing on a virtual drive
>made up of numerous physical disks? 

One loses the whole filesystem.  For the purpose of a news article store,
that's not such a big deal.