On 10/22/2012 06:05 PM, Hugo Mills wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:58:07AM -0500, Michael wrote: >> Does anyone know when RAID 5/6 are planned to be included in the >> Kernel? > > This is in the FAQ: > > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#Can_I_use_RAID.5B56.5D_on_my_Btrfs_filesystem.3F > > Short answer: Not yet, probably soon. > >> I am starting to buy parts for my next computer and would very >> much like to use BTRFS because I want a FS that can grow and also >> recover from undetected read errors - it will be large enough that >> these are possible. I'm hoping that it will be available for use in >> the coming months. > > You can switch storage types on the fly, so you could at least > start with RAID-1, and then restripe to RAID-5 (or -6) when it's > stable enough for you. This assumes that you can manage to use RAID-1 > in the first place and expand later. If you can live without redundancy at the beginning, you could also start with RAID-0, and then restripe to RAID-5.
Andreas -- 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
