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Mirror set

A mirror set is a group of storage members configured to maintain copies of the same logical data.

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OpenZFS permits mirrors with two or more members: an N-member mirror can retain its data after N-1 complete member failures when the remaining copy is current and readable. Multiple top-level data mirrors hold different portions of a pool; they are not copies of the entire pool. [1] A set is a redundancy group, whereas a failure domain identifies a shared cause of unavailability. The fixed-pair example counts failure sets that remove every copy from at least one pair; it does not estimate real failure rates. [3]

Relations

related
mirroring, raid-10, failure-domain, resilver

Limitations

Citations

  1. OpenZFS 2.3: zpoolconcepts(7), mirror virtual devices (accessed 2026-10-15)
  2. OpenZFS 2.3: zpool-attach(8), redundancy after resilver (accessed 2026-10-15)
  3. Hesela: RAID 10 mirror topology and exact failure-set counts (accessed 2026-10-15)

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