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From: tsuraan <tsuraan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RAID[56] with arbitrary numbers of "parity" stripes.
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:34:03 -0500
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> 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.