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From: Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 09:46:01
Message-Id: 5A2D024C.2050301@youngman.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6 by Rich Freeman
1 On 09/12/17 23:36, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > you instead compute 5 sets of parity so that now you have 9 sets of
3 > data that can tolerate the loss of any 5, then throw away the sets
4 > containing the original 4 sets of data and store the remaining 5 sets
5 > of parity data across the 5 drives. You can still tolerate the loss
6 > of one more set, but all 4 of the original sets of data have been
7 > tossed already.
8
9 Is that how ZFS works?
10
11 Cheers,
12 Wol

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>