I think you just described all the benefits of btrfs in that type of
configuration .... unfortunately after btrfs RAID 5 & 6 was marked as
OK it got marked as "it will eat your data" (and there is a tone of
people in random places poping up with raid 5 & 6 that just killed
their data)

On 11 October 2016 at 16:14, Philip Louis Moetteli
<philip.moett...@unige.ch> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I have to build a RAID 6 with the following 3 requirements:
>
>         • Use different kinds of disks with different sizes.
>         • When a disk fails and there's enough space, the RAID should be able 
> to reconstruct itself out of the degraded state. Meaning, if I have e. g. a 
> RAID with 8 disks and 1 fails, I should be able to chose to transform this in 
> a non-degraded (!) RAID with 7 disks.
>         • Also the other way round: If I add a disk of what size ever, it 
> should redistribute the data, so that it becomes a RAID with 9 disks.
>
> I don’t care, if I have to do it manually.
> I don’t care so much about speed either.
>
> Is BTrFS capable of doing that?
>
>
> Thanks a lot for your help!
>
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