On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Helmut Hullen <hul...@t-online.de> wrote: > Hallo, Daniel, > > Du meintest am 07.05.12: > >>> mkfs.btrfs -m raid1 -d raid0 >>> >>> with 3 disks gives me a "cluster" which looks like 1 disk/partition/ >>> directory. >>> If one disk fails nothing is usable. > >> How is that different from putting ext on top of a raid0? > > Classic raid0 doesn't allow deleting/removing disks from a cluster. > >>> With ext2/3/4 I mount 2 disks/partitions into the first disk. If one >>> disk fails the contents of the 2 other disks is still readable, > >> There is nothing that prevents you from using this strategy with >> btrfs. > > How? > I've tried many installations of btrfs, sometimes 1 disk failed, and > then the data on all other disks was inaccessible.
"With ext2/3/4 I mount 2 disks/partitions into the first disk. If one disk fails the contents of the 2 other disks is still readable," There's nothing stopping you from using 3 btrfs filesystems mounted in the same way as you would 3 ext4 filesystems. -- 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
