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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2021 15:09:28
Message-Id: 11806788.O9o76ZdvQC@iris
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ by William Kenworthy
1 On Thursday, July 1, 2021 3:29:03 AM CEST William Kenworthy wrote:
2 > On 1/7/21 7:31 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
3 > > Am Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 09:45:13PM +0100 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
4 > >> On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:56:49 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
5 > >>> I reached 80 % usage (which is the recommended maximum for ZFS) and am
6 > >>> now evaluating my options for the coming years.
7 > >>> ...
8 >
9 > Are you welded to ZFS? Is BTRFS or another alternative viable as it
10 > might handle the different drive sizes more elegantly? (e.g., btrfs raid
11 > handles different sized disks quite well)
12
13 Last I checked, BTRFS doesn't have any RAID5/6 equivalent.
14 And mirrored has too much storage-loss.
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17 Joost