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

Re: RAID1 3+ drives

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jun 28, 2014, at 12:28 AM, Russell Coker 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 from one disk

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 e

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 driv

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

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 > > > comp

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

Re: RAID1 3+ drives

2014-06-27 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

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

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

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 "unsubscri