Re: RAID1 3+ drives

2014-06-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 04:26:43 Duncan wrote: Russell Coker posted on Sat, 28 Jun 2014 10:51:00 +1000 as excerpted: On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:30:32 Zack Coffey wrote: Can I get more protection by using more than 2 drives? I had an onboard RAID a few years back that would let me use RAID1

Re: RAID1 3+ drives

2014-06-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 28. Juni 2014, 16:28:23 schrieb Russell Coker: So look for N-way-mirroring when you go RAID shopping, and no, btrfs does not have it at this time, altho it is roadmapped for implementation after completion of the raid5/6 code. FWIW, N-way-mirroring is my #1 btrfs

Re: RAID1 3+ drives

2014-06-28 Thread Hugo Mills
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 09:38:00AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Samstag, 28. Juni 2014, 16:28:23 schrieb Russell Coker: So look for N-way-mirroring when you go RAID shopping, and no, btrfs does not have it at this time, altho it is roadmapped for implementation after completion of

Re: RAID1 3+ drives

2014-06-28 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 04:26:43 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Russell Coker posted on Sat, 28 Jun 2014 10:51:00 +1000 as excerpted: On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:30:32 Zack Coffey wrote: Can I get more protection by using more than 2 drives? I had an onboard RAID a few years

Re: RAID1 3+ drives

2014-06-28 Thread Duncan
Russell Coker posted on Sat, 28 Jun 2014 16:28:23 +1000 as excerpted: On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 04:26:43 Duncan wrote: Russell Coker posted on Sat, 28 Jun 2014 10:51:00 +1000 as excerpted: On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:30:32 Zack Coffey wrote: Can I get more protection by using more than 2 drives?

Re: RAID1 3+ drives

2014-06-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 11:38:47 Duncan wrote: And with the size of disks we have today, the statistics on multiple whole device reliability are NOT good to us! There's a VERY REAL chance, even likelihood, that at least one block on the device is going to be bad, and not be caught by its own

Re: RAID1 3+ drives

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jun 28, 2014, at 12:28 AM, Russell Coker russ...@coker.com.au wrote: Tho if you ran a md/dmraid level scrub often enough, and then ran a btrfs scrub on top, one could be /reasonably/ assured of freedom from lower level corruption. Not at all. Linux software RAID scrub will copy data

Re: RAID1 3+ drives

2014-06-28 Thread Duncan
Roman Mamedov posted on Sat, 28 Jun 2014 16:13:47 +0600 as excerpted: Also depending on what you consider fully works, RAID1 may not qualify too, as neither the read-balancing, nor write-submission algorithms are ready for production use, performance-wise. (RAID1 writes to two disks

RAID1 3+ drives

2014-06-27 Thread Zack Coffey
Can I get more protection by using more than 2 drives? I had an onboard RAID a few years back that would let me use RAID1 across up to 4 drives. Apologies if this has been covered already, I don't recall seeing anything saying yay or nay. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: RAID1 3+ drives

2014-06-27 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:30:32 Zack Coffey wrote: Can I get more protection by using more than 2 drives? I had an onboard RAID a few years back that would let me use RAID1 across up to 4 drives. Currently the only RAID level that fully works in BTRFS is RAID-1 with data on 2 disks. If you

Re: RAID1 3+ drives

2014-06-27 Thread Duncan
Russell Coker posted on Sat, 28 Jun 2014 10:51:00 +1000 as excerpted: On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:30:32 Zack Coffey wrote: Can I get more protection by using more than 2 drives? I had an onboard RAID a few years back that would let me use RAID1 across up to 4 drives. Currently the only RAID