On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:51:35AM -0500, Calvin Walton wrote:
Single: When it writes does it simple fill up one drive then move to
the next or does it write in a round robin type fashion?
I'm not totally sure, this depends on the vagaries of the chunk
allocator. When writing only new
On Jan 24, 2014, at 7:52 AM, David Sterba dste...@suse.cz wrote:
The 'fill one device first is addressed by
Btrfs: Add linear chunk allocation support
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg29616.html
What about something like XFS's AGs? Instead of writing a single stream of
files to
I'm pretty sure I know the answers but just wanted confirmation.
RAID1: When it reads does it read from only one disk or does it try
to read from multiple disks?
Single: When it writes does it simple fill up one drive then move to
the next or does it write in a round robin type fashion?
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On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 10:43 -0500, G. Michael Carter wrote:
I'm pretty sure I know the answers but just wanted confirmation.
RAID1: When it reads does it read from only one disk or does it try
to read from multiple disks?
The current implementation of RAID1 on btrfs will, with a single
G. Michael Carter posted on Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:43:59 -0500 as excerpted:
I'm pretty sure I know the answers but just wanted confirmation.
RAID1: When it reads does it read from only one disk or does it try to
read from multiple disks?
*) Btrfs will read from one device[1] at a time, per
