Re: RAID56 discussion related to RST. (Was "Re: [RFC ONLY 0/8] btrfs: introduce raid-stripe-tree")

Johannes Thumshirn
2022-07-13T15:28:27Z

On 13.07.22 17:25, Lukas Straub wrote:
>
> Have you considered variable stripe size? I believe ZFS does this.
> Should be easy for raid5 since it's just xor, not sure for raid6.
>
> PS: ZFS seems to do variable-_width_ stripes
> https://pthree.org/2012/12/05/zfs-administration-part-ii-raidz/

I did and coincidentally we have been talking about it just 5 minutes
ago and both David and Chris aren't very fond of the idea.