On 06/25/2012 03:28 PM, Gareth Pye wrote:
> To me one doesn't have to be triggered, a user expects to have to tell
> the disks to rebuild/resync/balance after adding a disk, they may want
> to wait till they've added all 4 disks and run a few extra commands
> before they run the rebalance.
They do? E.g. mdadm doesn't make them...
> What is important is having a mode that
> doesn't require the user to remember that what they had used as the
> closest analogue to RAID1 that BTRFS supports requires them to run
> another command to change the 'RAID level' to be the RAID1 analogue for
> the new number of disks.
>
> Users will forget that and they will lose data because of it. At least
> with a M=N mode BTRFS can say they tried to make it easy to avoid that
> pitfall.
Doesn't that contradict your previous statement? In either case, I
agree with the latter...
-hpa
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