Re: raid6 + hot spare question

2015-09-09 Thread Brendan Hide
Things can be a little more nuanced. First off, I'm not even sure btrfs supports a hot spare currently. I haven't seen anything along those lines recently in the list - and don't recall anything along those lines before either. The current mention of it in the Project Ideas page on the wiki

Re: raid6 + hot spare question

2015-09-09 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Brendan Hide wrote: > Things can be a little more nuanced. > > First off, I'm not even sure btrfs supports a hot spare currently. I haven't > seen anything along those lines recently in the list - and don't recall > anything along those

Re: raid6 + hot spare question

2015-09-09 Thread Duncan
Brendan Hide posted on Wed, 09 Sep 2015 17:48:11 +0200 as excerpted: > Things can be a little more nuanced. > > First off, I'm not even sure btrfs supports a hot spare currently. I > haven't seen anything along those lines recently in the list - and don't > recall anything along those lines

Re: raid6 + hot spare question

2015-09-08 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 01:59:19PM +0200, Peter Keše wrote: > > I'm planning to set up a raid6 array with 4 x 4TB drives. > Presumably that would result in 8TB of usable space + parity, which > is about enough for my data (my data is currently 5TB in raid1, > slowly growing at about 1 TB per

raid6 + hot spare question

2015-09-08 Thread Peter Keše
I'm planning to set up a raid6 array with 4 x 4TB drives. Presumably that would result in 8TB of usable space + parity, which is about enough for my data (my data is currently 5TB in raid1, slowly growing at about 1 TB per year, but I often keep some additional backups if space permits).