RAID device nomination (Feature request)

2013-04-18 Thread Martin
Dear Devs, I have a number of esata disk packs holding 4 physical disks each where I wish to use the disk packs aggregated for 16TB and up to 64TB backups... Can btrfs...? 1: Mirror data such that there is a copy of data on each *disk pack* ? Note that esata shows just the disks as individual

Re: RAID device nomination (Feature request)

2013-04-18 Thread Hugo Mills
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 02:45:24PM +0100, Martin wrote: Dear Devs, I have a number of esata disk packs holding 4 physical disks each where I wish to use the disk packs aggregated for 16TB and up to 64TB backups... Can btrfs...? 1: Mirror data such that there is a copy of data on each

Re: RAID device nomination (Feature request)

2013-04-18 Thread Martin
On 18/04/13 15:06, Hugo Mills wrote: On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 02:45:24PM +0100, Martin wrote: Dear Devs, I have a number of esata disk packs holding 4 physical disks each where I wish to use the disk packs aggregated for 16TB and up to 64TB backups... Can btrfs...? 1: Mirror data

Re: RAID device nomination (Feature request)

2013-04-18 Thread Hugo Mills
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 05:29:10PM +0100, Martin wrote: On 18/04/13 15:06, Hugo Mills wrote: On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 02:45:24PM +0100, Martin wrote: Dear Devs, I have a number of esata disk packs holding 4 physical disks each where I wish to use the disk packs aggregated for 16TB and

Re: RAID device nomination (Feature request)

2013-04-18 Thread Alex Elsayed
Hugo Mills wrote: On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 02:45:24PM +0100, Martin wrote: Dear Devs, snip Note that esata shows just the disks as individual physical disks, 4 per disk pack. Can physical disks be grouped together to force the RAID data to be mirrored across all the nominated groups?

Re: RAID device nomination (Feature request)

2013-04-18 Thread Martin
On 18/04/13 20:44, Hugo Mills wrote: On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 05:29:10PM +0100, Martin wrote: On 18/04/13 15:06, Hugo Mills wrote: On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 02:45:24PM +0100, Martin wrote: Dear Devs, I have a number of esata disk packs holding 4 physical disks each where I wish to use the

Re: RAID device nomination (Feature request)

2013-04-18 Thread Martin
On 18/04/13 20:48, Alex Elsayed wrote: Hugo Mills wrote: On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 02:45:24PM +0100, Martin wrote: Dear Devs, snip Note that esata shows just the disks as individual physical disks, 4 per disk pack. Can physical disks be grouped together to force the RAID data to be mirrored

Re: RAID device nomination (Feature request)

2013-04-18 Thread Alex Elsayed
Martin wrote: snip Or perhaps include the same Ceph code routines into btrfs?... That's actually what I was thinking. The CRUSH code is actually already pretty well factored out - it lives in net/ceph/crush/ in the kernel source tree, and is treated as part of 'libceph' (which is used by