Re: Feeback on RAID1 feature of Btrfs

2012-12-19 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 01:20:20PM +0200, Brendan Hide wrote: On 2012/12/17 06:23 PM, Hugo Mills wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 04:51:33PM +0100, Sebastien Luttringer wrote: Hello, snip I get the feeling that RAID1 only

Re: Feeback on RAID1 feature of Btrfs

2012-12-18 Thread Brendan Hide
On 2012/12/17 06:23 PM, Hugo Mills wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 04:51:33PM +0100, Sebastien Luttringer wrote: Hello, snip I get the feeling that RAID1 only allow one disk removing. Which is more a RAID5 feature. The RAID-1 support in btrfs makes exactly two copies of each item of data,

Re: Feeback on RAID1 feature of Btrfs

2012-12-18 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 01:20:20PM +0200, Brendan Hide wrote: On 2012/12/17 06:23 PM, Hugo Mills wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 04:51:33PM +0100, Sebastien Luttringer wrote: Hello, snip I get the feeling that RAID1 only allow one disk removing. Which is more a RAID5 feature. The RAID-1

Feeback on RAID1 feature of Btrfs

2012-12-17 Thread Sebastien Luttringer
Hello, I'm testing Btrfs RAID1 feature on 3 disks of ~10GB. Last one is not exactly 10GB (would be too easy). About the test machine, it's a kvm vm running an up-to-date archlinux with linux 3.7 and btrfs-progs 0.19.20121005. #uname -a Linux seblu-btrfs-1 3.7.0-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 11

Re: Feeback on RAID1 feature of Btrfs

2012-12-17 Thread Bart Noordervliet
Hello Sebastien, with btrfs raid1 you get two copies of each extent on separate drives. That means you can lose one drive only, no matter how many drives are in the set. It's not traditional raid1, which is probably what you are confusing it with. Having raid1 with more than 2n-redudancy is not

Re: Feeback on RAID1 feature of Btrfs

2012-12-17 Thread Hugo Mills
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 04:51:33PM +0100, Sebastien Luttringer wrote: Hello, I'm testing Btrfs RAID1 feature on 3 disks of ~10GB. Last one is not exactly 10GB (would be too easy). About the test machine, it's a kvm vm running an up-to-date archlinux with linux 3.7 and btrfs-progs