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425. What is advantage of having disk shadowing/ Mirroring?
Shadow set of disks save as a backup in the event of disk failure. In most Operating System if any disk failure occurs it automatically switches over to a working disk. Improved performance because most OS support volume shadowing can direct file I/O request to use the shadow set of files instead of the main set of files. This reduces I/O load on the main set of disks.
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