On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Ank Ular posted on Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:49:41 -0400 as excerpted: ... > OK, I'm one of the ones that's going to "go off" on you, but FWIW, I > expect pretty much everyone else would pretty much agree. At least you > do have backups. =:^) > > I don't think you appreciate just how bad raid56 is ATM. There are just > too many REALLY serious bugs like the one you mention with it, and it's > actively NEGATIVELY recommended here as a result. It's bad enough with > even current kernels, and the problems are well known enough to the devs, > that there's really not a whole lot to test ATM...
Can we please hide the ability to even create any new raid56 filesystems behind a new flag : --i-accept-total-data-loss to make sure that folks are prepared for how risky it currently is. That should be an easy patch to the userland utilities. -- 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
