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On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 13:38:55 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> > The same is also possible with BTRFS, including built in RAID. RAID5 |
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> > in btrfs is expermiental, but its RAID1 is like RAID5 in some ways, |
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> > such as giving the capacity of n-1 disks and tolerating a single disk |
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> > failure. |
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> btrfs raid5 is still fairly experimental (though now it supports |
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> recovery) and works more-or-less how you'd expect raid5 to work. |
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> Raid1 on btrfs gives you the capacity of n/2 and not n-1 disks, |
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You're right, I was clearly confused (an oxymoron?) when I wrote that. |
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So RAID1 gives less capacity than RAID5 on BTRFS, but it is stable (in |
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btrfs terms). |
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Neil Bothwick |
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This universe is sold by mass, not by volume. |
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Some expansion may have occurred during shipment |
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