On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Hugo Mills <h...@carfax.org.uk> wrote: > > However, you can remove any one drive, and your data is fine, which > is what btrfs's RAID-1 guarantee is. I understand that there will be > additional features coming along Real Soon Now (possibly at the same > time that RAID-5 and -6 are integrated) which will allow the selection > of larger numbers of copies. >
Is there a projected timeframe for RAID5/6? I understand it's currently not the development focus of the BTRFS team, and most organizations want performance over capacity making RAID10 the clear choice. But, there are still some situations where RAID6 is better suited (large pools of archive storage). Also, do we know if the RAID5/6 implementation will simply break data into two data objects and one or two parity objects, or will it work with an arbitrary number of devices? Meaning, if I have a RAID6 pool of 12 drives, will I get 10 data objects and two parity objects? Thanks all for your replies! Tom -- 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
