On 25 March 2016 at 12:49, Stephen Williams <steph...@veryfast.biz> wrote:
>
> So catch 22, you need all the drives otherwise it won't let you mount,
> But what happens if a drive dies and the OS doesn't detect it? BTRFS
> wont allow you to mount the raid volume to remove the bad disk!

Version of Linux and btrfs-progs?

You can't have a raid10 with less than 4 devices so you need to add a
new device before deleting the missing. That is of course still a
problem with a read-only fs.

btrfs replace is also the recommended way to replace a failed device
nowadays. The wiki is outdated.
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