From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53606 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751801Ab3CJXmO (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:42:14 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UEprS-0001HL-EG for linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:41:02 +0100 Received: from cpc2-with5-2-0-cust470.1-4.cable.virginmedia.com ([81.97.59.215]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:41:02 +0100 Received: from samtygier by cpc2-with5-2-0-cust470.1-4.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:41:02 +0100 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org From: sam tygier Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] [RFC] RAID-level terminology change Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:40:27 +0000 Message-ID: References: <1362861071-12589-1-git-send-email-hugo@carfax.org.uk> <513CAA25.2010803@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <513CAA25.2010803@gmail.com> Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/03/13 15:43, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote: > - DUP -> dD (to allow more that 2 copy per > disk) > > - RAID1 -> nC or *C > > - RAID0 -> mS or *S > > - RAID10 -> nCmS or *CmS or nC*s > > - RAID with parity -> mSpP or *SpP or mS*p (it is possible ?) > > - single -> 1C or 1D or 1S or "single" > > > where d,n,m,p are integers; '*' is the literal '*' and means "how many > possible". Using an asterisk '*' in something will be used as a command line argument risks having the shell expand it. Sticking to pure alphanumeric names would be better.