> That really is the case, there's currently no way to do this with BTRFS. > You have to keep in mind that the raid5/6 code only went into the mainline > kernel a few versions ago, and it's still pretty immature as far as kernel > code goes. I don't know when (if ever) such a feature might get put in, but > it's definitely something to add to the list of things that would be nice to > have. > > For the moment, the only option to achieve something like this is to set up > a bunch of separate 8 device filesystems, but I would be willing to bet that > the way you have it configured right now is closer to what most people would > be doing in a regular deployment, and therefore is probably more valuable > for testing. >
I see. Right now on our +500TB zfs filesystems we used raid6 with a 6 disk vdev, which is often in the zfs world, and for btrfs I would be the same when stable/possible. -- 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
