On 17.11.2011 12:53, Thomas Schmidt wrote: > >> On 17.11.2011 01:27, Thomas Schmidt wrote: >> In your setup, it should stripe to all 8 devices until the 5 smaller ones >> are full, and from then on stripe to the 3 remaining devices. > > Afaik the behavior you describe is exactly the problem. > It wants to continuing with 3 devices, but according to the code raid10 > requires 4. >
Right you are. So you want to sacrifice stripe size for space efficiency. Why don't you just use RAID1? Instead of reducing the stripe size for the majority of writes, I'd prefer to allow RAID10 to go down to 2 disks. This should also solve it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
