From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hubert Kario Subject: Re: Raid1 with 3 drives Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 23:27:27 +0100 Message-ID: <201003052327.28202.hka@qbs.com.pl> References: <013A5A0F-6BB8-4CF0-855F-0A80BEA8B1CC@adtran.com> <93cdabd21003051413m76a8babs2ab5a58c32dd9aee@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Bart Noordervliet , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Fedyk Return-path: In-Reply-To: <93cdabd21003051413m76a8babs2ab5a58c32dd9aee@mail.gmail.com> List-ID: On Friday 05 March 2010 23:13:54 Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Bart Noordervliet =20 wrote: > > Maybe it's worth to consider leaving the burdened raid* terminology > > behind and name the btrfs redundancy modes more clearly by what the= y > > do. For instance "-d double|triple" or "-d 2n|3n". And for raid5/6 = "-d > > single-parity|double-parity" or "-d n+1|n+2". >=20 > +1 Good idea IMHO. When we will be able to specify the redundancy modes on a file by file = basis=20 it will make it much less confusig for the users to talk about double, = triple =20 replication or [single|double]-parity.=20 It's a bit silly to talk about "Arrays of Disks" when we mean groups of= =20 blocks. --=20 Hubert Kario QBS - Quality Business Software ul. Ksawer=C3=B3w 30/85 02-656 Warszawa POLAND tel. +48 (22) 646-61-51, 646-74-24 fax +48 (22) 646-61-50 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html