Re: What happened with the Patch "New RAID library supporting up to six parities"

2014-10-28 Thread NeilBrown
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:16:52 + Ronny Egner wrote: > Hi Neil, > > > i did a short test and it works so far. Here are my results. Let me know > if you need something more: > > (TL;DR: Wonderful patch. Tested with PAR6 (= six parities) and was able to > recover from losing five disks at once.

Re: What happened with the Patch "New RAID library supporting up to six parities"

2014-10-21 Thread Ronny Egner
Hi Neil, i did a short test and it works so far. Here are my results. Let me know if you need something more: (TL;DR: Wonderful patch. Tested with PAR6 (= six parities) and was able to recover from losing five disks at once.) The patches apply against 3.14.22 and btrfs-progs 3.12 but not agai

Re: What happened with the Patch "New RAID library supporting up to six parities"

2014-10-21 Thread NeilBrown
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 06:33:47 + Ronny Egner wrote: > Dear All, > > i was wondering what happened with the patch posted by Andrea Mazzoleni > back in Februrary 2014 (this Thread: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1654735). > > Why wash´t it added to the code? Something missing/wron

What happened with the Patch "New RAID library supporting up to six parities"

2014-10-20 Thread Ronny Egner
Dear All, i was wondering what happened with the patch posted by Andrea Mazzoleni back in Februrary 2014 (this Thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1654735). Why wash´t it added to the code? Something missing/wrong? In my opinion the posted patch is awesome and would enable a uniqu