From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Maybe crazy idea for reshaping: Instant/On-Demand reshaping
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:39:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxz46vj2.fsf@frosties.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100220194020.5d1689e6@notabene.brown> (Neil Brown's message of "Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:40:20 +1100")
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> writes:
> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:27:54 +0100
> Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
>> So what do you think? Is this lack of cafein speaking?
>
> I think your cost-benefit trade-off is way off balance on the cost side.
>
> This sort of complexity really belongs in a filesystem, not in a a block
> device.
>
> NeilBrown
So you are saying I should be using zfs instead of ext3+raid5. :)
When I read up on zfs last year it could not do any reshaping at
all. You could only add new pools but not reshape an existing one.
MfG
Goswin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-20 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-20 5:27 Maybe crazy idea for reshaping: Instant/On-Demand reshaping Goswin von Brederlow
2010-02-20 8:40 ` Neil Brown
2010-02-20 10:39 ` Goswin von Brederlow [this message]
2010-02-21 2:21 ` Neil Brown
2010-02-21 11:14 ` Goswin von Brederlow
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