Re: SATA/SAS mixed pool

2018-12-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 05:14:37AM +, Duncan wrote: > Adam Borowski posted on Thu, 13 Dec 2018 08:29:05 +0100 as excerpted: > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 09:31:02PM -0600, Nathan Dehnel wrote: > >> Is it possible/safe to replace a SATA drive in a btrfs RAID10 pool with > >> an SAS drive? > > > >

Re: SATA/SAS mixed pool

2018-12-13 Thread Duncan
Adam Borowski posted on Thu, 13 Dec 2018 08:29:05 +0100 as excerpted: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 09:31:02PM -0600, Nathan Dehnel wrote: >> Is it possible/safe to replace a SATA drive in a btrfs RAID10 pool with >> an SAS drive? > > For btrfs, a block device is a block device, it's not "racist". >

Re: SATA/SAS mixed pool

2018-12-13 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-12-13 05:39, Remi Gauvin wrote: On 2018-12-13 02:29 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: For btrfs, a block device is a block device, it's not "racist". You can freely mix and/or replace. If you want to, say, extend a SD card with NBD to remote spinning rust, it works well -- tested :p The pos

Re: SATA/SAS mixed pool

2018-12-13 Thread Remi Gauvin
On 2018-12-13 02:29 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > > For btrfs, a block device is a block device, it's not "racist". > You can freely mix and/or replace. If you want to, say, extend a SD > card with NBD to remote spinning rust, it works well -- tested :p > The possibility ff NBD certainly intrigue

Re: SATA/SAS mixed pool

2018-12-12 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 09:31:02PM -0600, Nathan Dehnel wrote: > Is it possible/safe to replace a SATA drive in a btrfs RAID10 pool > with an SAS drive? For btrfs, a block device is a block device, it's not "racist". You can freely mix and/or replace. If you want to, say, extend a SD card with NB

Re: SATA/SAS mixed pool

2018-12-12 Thread Zia Nayamuth
I've done it with ZFS and hardraid controllers. I see no reason why btrfs should care. On 2018-12-13 07:31, Nathan Dehnel wrote: Is it possible/safe to replace a SATA drive in a btrfs RAID10 pool with an SAS drive?

SATA/SAS mixed pool

2018-12-12 Thread Nathan Dehnel
Is it possible/safe to replace a SATA drive in a btrfs RAID10 pool with an SAS drive?