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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Actual effect of mkfs.btrfs -m raid10 </dev/sdX> ... -d raid10 </dev/sdX> ...
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:43:57 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan$448fc$ee29c6cf$df5ffdae$4f88c4b5@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20131120080958.GA28883@carfax.org.uk

Hugo Mills posted on Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:09:58 +0000 as excerpted:

> RAID-0:  min 2 devices
> RAID-10: min 4 devices
> RAID-5:  min 2 devices (I think)
> RAID-6:  min 3 devices (I think)

RAID-5 should be 3-device minimum (each stripe consisting of two data 
segments and one parity segment, each on a different device).

And RAID-6 similarly four devices (two data and two parity).

Perhaps it's time I get that wiki account and edit some of this stuff 
myself...

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman


  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-20 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-19  5:12 Actual effect of mkfs.btrfs -m raid10 </dev/sdX> ... -d raid10 </dev/sdX> deadhorseconsulting
2013-11-19  9:06 ` Hugo Mills
2013-11-19 19:24   ` deadhorseconsulting
2013-11-19 21:04     ` Duncan
2013-11-20  6:41     ` Martin
2013-11-19 23:16   ` Duncan
2013-11-20  6:35     ` Martin
2013-11-20 10:16       ` Chris Murphy
2013-11-20 10:22         ` Russell Coker
2013-11-20  8:09     ` Hugo Mills
2013-11-20 16:43       ` Duncan [this message]
2013-11-20 16:52         ` Hugo Mills
2013-11-20 21:13           ` Duncan
2013-11-21 17:14 ` Jeff Mahoney

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