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From: Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: I need to P. are we almost there yet?
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:26:25 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2740386.L6W23cCsJO@quad> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1da0cf9a75a357c960af323aa56c7530.squirrel@webmail.wanet.net>

On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 09:27:14 AM ashford@whisperpc.com wrote:

> I see this as a CRITICAL design flaw.  The reason for calling it CRITICAL
> is that System Administrators have been trained for >20 years that RAID-10
> can usually handle a dual-disk failure, but the BTRFS implementation has
> effectively ZERO chance of doing so.

I suspect this is a knock-on effect of the fact that (unless this has changed 
recently & IIRC) RAID-1 with btrfs will only mirrors data over two drives, no 
matter how many you add to an array.

-- 
 Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-01  1:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-29 18:56 I need to P. are we almost there yet? sys.syphus
2014-12-29 19:00 ` sys.syphus
2014-12-29 19:04   ` Hugo Mills
2014-12-29 20:25     ` sys.syphus
2014-12-29 21:50       ` Hugo Mills
2014-12-29 21:16   ` Chris Murphy
2014-12-30  0:20     ` ashford
     [not found]       ` <CALBWd85UsSih24RhwpmDeMjuMWCKj9dGeuZes5POj6qEFkiz2w@mail.gmail.com>
2014-12-30 17:09         ` Fwd: " Jose Manuel Perez Bethencourt
2014-12-30 21:44       ` Phillip Susi
2014-12-30 23:17         ` ashford
2014-12-31  2:45           ` Phillip Susi
2014-12-31 17:27             ` ashford
2014-12-31 23:38               ` Phillip Susi
2015-01-01  1:26               ` Chris Samuel [this message]
2015-01-01 20:12                 ` Roger Binns
2015-01-02  3:47                   ` Duncan
2015-01-02 13:42               ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-01-02 17:45                 ` Brendan Hide
2015-01-02 19:41                   ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-12-29 21:13 ` Chris Murphy
2015-01-03 11:34 ` Bob Marley
2015-01-03 13:11   ` Duncan
2015-01-03 18:53     ` Bob Marley
2015-01-03 19:03       ` sys.syphus
2015-01-03 18:55     ` sys.syphus
2015-01-04  3:22       ` Duncan
2015-01-04  3:54         ` Hugo Mills
2015-01-03 21:58     ` Roman Mamedov
2015-01-04  3:24       ` Duncan

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