From: tsuraan <tsuraan@gmail.com>
To: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RAID[56] with arbitrary numbers of "parity" stripes.
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:34:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84fb38e30908220834pab3f891we9ca7114a16988c0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1249502665.23206.5.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
> We discussed using the top bits of the chunk type field field to store a
> number of redundant disks -- so instead of RAID5, RAID6, etc., we end up
> with a single 'RAID56' flag, and the amount of redundancy is stored
> elsewhere.
Is there any sort of timeline for RAID5/6 support in btrfs? I
currently have 8 drives in a zfs-fuse RAIDZ2 (RAID6) configuration,
and I'd love to see how btrfs compares to that, once it's ready.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-22 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-05 20:04 RAID[56] with arbitrary numbers of "parity" stripes David Woodhouse
2009-08-22 15:34 ` tsuraan [this message]
2009-08-22 16:31 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2009-08-22 19:00 ` tsuraan
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