On Saturday 24 March 2012 04:35:39 Bob McElrath wrote:
> I'm still dreaming of a fs/admin tool that I can throw disks at,
> and not have to spend so much time with the details of
> partitioning/raid/lvm/fs.
There was a tool called System Storage Manager (ssm) that someone from
RedHat posted abou
Hugo Mills posted on Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:20:07 + as excerpted:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 06:11:59AM +, Bob McElrath wrote:
>> Greetings butter-heads,
>>
>> I would like to implement a redundant (raid1) disk array on
>> heterogeneous disks using btrfs. A more detailed description of what
Roman Mamedov [r...@romanrm.ru] wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:49:32 +
> Aye, but I consider space used for redundancy to be wasted as well, especially
> when the same (or even higher) amount of redundancy can be achieved by
> spending
> less storage space on it.
Point taken. So how's the b
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:49:32 +
Bob McElrath wrote:
> Roman Mamedov [r...@romanrm.ru] wrote:
> (can't reliably tolerate an any-two-disks failure even).
s/even/event/
> > I suggest that you go with
> > http://linuxconfig.org/prouhd-raid-for-the-end-user
> > instead. Depending on how many dri
Roman Mamedov [r...@romanrm.ru] wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:11:59 +
> Bob McElrath wrote:
>
> > http://superuser.com/questions/387851/a-zfs-or-lvm-or-md-redundant-heterogeneous-storage-proposal/388536
> >
> > In a nutshell: organize your heterogenous disks into two "halves", the sum
> >
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:11:59 +
Bob McElrath wrote:
> http://superuser.com/questions/387851/a-zfs-or-lvm-or-md-redundant-heterogeneous-storage-proposal/388536
>
> In a nutshell: organize your heterogenous disks into two "halves", the sum of
> which are of roughly equal size, and create a raid
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 06:11:59AM +, Bob McElrath wrote:
> Greetings butter-heads,
>
> I would like to implement a redundant (raid1) disk array on heterogeneous
> disks
> using btrfs. A more detailed description of what I want to do can be found
> here:
>
> http://superuser.com/questions/
> In a nutshell: organize your heterogenous disks into two "halves", the sum of
> which are of roughly equal size, and create a raid1 array across those two
> halves.
>
[snip]
>
> In the long term, I would like this to be something that btrfs could do by
> itself, without LVM. Having absolutely no
