Disk 100% busy

[Francisco]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Brad Knowles wrote:

> 	Note that RAID-1 is the second worst-case for mail server performance 
> -- it accelerates reads (if you have mirror load-balancing), but all writes 
> are required to be held until complete on both disks.  The only worse case 
> would be RAID-5, where you have to write (or re-write) an entire RAID block 
> at once, plus the parity information.

Coming late into the thread...
What is a good raid level for a maildir IMAP server? RAID 10 (or 0+1 as 
others call it).