Re: btrfs RAID with enterprise SATA or SAS drives

2014-07-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2014, 12:10:46 schrieb Russell Coker: On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 16:48:05 Martin Steigerwald wrote: - for someone using SAS or enterprise SATA drives with Linux, I understand btrfs gives the extra benefit of checksums, are there any other specific benefits over using

Re: btrfs RAID with enterprise SATA or SAS drives

2014-07-10 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2014-07-09 22:10, Russell Coker wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 16:48:05 Martin Steigerwald wrote: - for someone using SAS or enterprise SATA drives with Linux, I understand btrfs gives the extra benefit of checksums, are there any other specific benefits over using mdadm or dmraid? I think I

Re: btrfs RAID with enterprise SATA or SAS drives

2014-07-09 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2012, 22:01:49 schrieb Daniel Pocock: There is various information about - enterprise-class drives (either SAS or just enterprise SATA) - the SCSI/SAS protocols themselves vs SATA having more advanced features (e.g. for dealing with error conditions) than the average

Re: btrfs RAID with enterprise SATA or SAS drives

2014-07-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 16:48:05 Martin Steigerwald wrote: - for someone using SAS or enterprise SATA drives with Linux, I understand btrfs gives the extra benefit of checksums, are there any other specific benefits over using mdadm or dmraid? I think I can answer this one. Most important

Re: btrfs RAID with enterprise SATA or SAS drives

2012-05-14 Thread Duncan
Martin Steigerwald posted on Fri, 11 May 2012 18:58:05 +0200 as excerpted: Martin Steigerwald posted on Fri, 11 May 2012 18:58:05 +0200 as excerpted: Am Freitag, 11. Mai 2012 schrieb Duncan: Daniel Pocock posted on Wed, 09 May 2012 22:01:49 + as excerpted: There is various information

Re: btrfs RAID with enterprise SATA or SAS drives

2012-05-10 Thread Hubert Kario
On Wednesday 09 of May 2012 22:01:49 Daniel Pocock wrote: There is various information about - enterprise-class drives (either SAS or just enterprise SATA) - the SCSI/SAS protocols themselves vs SATA having more advanced features (e.g. for dealing with error conditions) than the average block

Re: btrfs RAID with enterprise SATA or SAS drives

2012-05-10 Thread Duncan
Daniel Pocock posted on Wed, 09 May 2012 22:01:49 + as excerpted: There is various information about - enterprise-class drives (either SAS or just enterprise SATA) - the SCSI/SAS protocols themselves vs SATA having more advanced features (e.g. for dealing with error conditions) than the

btrfs RAID with enterprise SATA or SAS drives

2012-05-09 Thread Daniel Pocock
There is various information about - enterprise-class drives (either SAS or just enterprise SATA) - the SCSI/SAS protocols themselves vs SATA having more advanced features (e.g. for dealing with error conditions) than the average block device For example, Adaptec recommends that such drives