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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SATA/SAS mixed pool
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 05:14:37 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan$a6302$5fc2e266$9dae146a$696f7df5@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20181213072905.ac352nclowixfhpt@angband.pl

Adam Borowski posted on Thu, 13 Dec 2018 08:29:05 +0100 as excerpted:

> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 09:31:02PM -0600, Nathan Dehnel wrote:
>> Is it possible/safe to replace a SATA drive in a btrfs RAID10 pool with
>> an SAS drive?
> 
> For btrfs, a block device is a block device, it's not "racist".
> You can freely mix and/or replace.  If you want to, say, extend a SD
> card with NBD to remote spinning rust, it works well -- tested :p

FWIW (mostly for other readers not so much this particular case) the 
known exception/caveat to that is USB block devices, which do tend to 
have problems, tho some hardware is fine.

-- 
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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-14  5:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-13  3:31 SATA/SAS mixed pool Nathan Dehnel
2018-12-13  4:07 ` Zia Nayamuth
2018-12-13  7:29 ` Adam Borowski
2018-12-13 10:39   ` Remi Gauvin
2018-12-13 12:48     ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2018-12-14  5:14   ` Duncan [this message]
2018-12-14 15:26     ` Adam Borowski

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