On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 11:45 -0500, Dave wrote: > Back in Feb 2013 there was quite a bit of press about the preliminary > raid5/6 implementation in Btrfs. At the time it wasn't useful for > anything other then testing and it's my understanding that this is > still the case. > > I've seen a few git commits and some chatter on this list but it would > appear the developers are largely silent. Parity based raid would be > a powerful addition the the Btrfs feature stack and it's the feature I > most anxiously await. Are there any milestones planned for 2014? > > Keep up the good work...
Thanks! The big thing missing from RAID5/6 has been logging of parity to make sure the parity is consistent after a power outage. I'm back on this now, and making some progress. We also need to fix scrub support for raid5/6, which will happen after the parity work. -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
