On 2012/12/17 06:23 PM, Hugo Mills wrote:
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 04:51:33PM +0100, Sebastien Luttringer wrote:
Hello,
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I get the feeling that RAID1 only allow one disk removing. Which is more
a RAID5 feature.
The RAID-1 support in btrfs makes exactly two copies of each item
of data, so you can lose at most one disk from the array safely. Lose
any more, and you're likely to have lost data, as you've found out.
I'm afraid Btrfs raid1 will not be working before the end of the world.
It does work (as you demonstrated with the first disk being
removed) -- but just not as you thought it should. Now, you can argue
that "RAID-1" isn't a good name to use here, but there's no good name
in RAID terminology to describe what we actually have here.
Technically, btrfs's "RAID1" implementation is much closer to RAID1E
than traditional RAID1. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_RAID_levels#RAID_1E or
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/director/v5r2/index.jsp?topic=/serveraid_9.00/fqy0_craid1e.html
Perhaps a new name, as with ZFS, might be appropriate. RAID-Z and
RAID-Z2, for example, could not adequately be described by any existing
RAID terminology and, technically, RAID-Z still isn't a RAID in the
classical sense.
--
Brendan Hide
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