Re: Update to Project_ideas wiki page

2010-11-26 Thread Paul Komkoff
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Hugo Mills hugo-l...@carfax.org.uk wrote: == Changing RAID levels == We need ioctls to change between different raid levels.  Some of these are quite easy -- e.g. for RAID0 to RAID1, we just halve the available bytes on the fs, then queue a rebalance. Can we

Re: Update to Project_ideas wiki page

2010-11-18 Thread Gordan Bobic
Bart Kus wrote: On 11/17/2010 10:07 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote: On 11/17/2010 05:56 PM, Hugo Mills wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 04:12:29PM +0100, Bart Noordervliet wrote: Can I suggest we combine this new RAID level management with a modernisation of the terminology for storage redundancy, as

Re: Update to Project_ideas wiki page

2010-11-18 Thread Bart Noordervliet
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 19:07, Gordan Bobic gor...@bobich.net wrote: Since BTRFS is already doing some relatively radical things, I would like to suggest that RAID5 and RAID6 be deemed obsolete. RAID5 isn't safely usable for arrays bigger than about 5TB with disks that have a specified error

Re: Update to Project_ideas wiki page

2010-11-18 Thread Gordan Bobic
Bart Noordervliet wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 19:07, Gordan Bobic gor...@bobich.net wrote: Since BTRFS is already doing some relatively radical things, I would like to suggest that RAID5 and RAID6 be deemed obsolete. RAID5 isn't safely usable for arrays bigger than about 5TB with disks that

Re: Update to Project_ideas wiki page

2010-11-18 Thread Justin Ossevoort
On 18/11/10 15:31, Bart Noordervliet wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 19:07, Gordan Bobic gor...@bobich.net wrote: Since BTRFS is already doing some relatively radical things, I would like to suggest that RAID5 and RAID6 be deemed obsolete. RAID5 isn't safely usable for arrays bigger than about

Re: Update to Project_ideas wiki page

2010-11-17 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:19:45PM -0500, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, Chris Mason has posted a bunch of interesting updates to the Project_ideas wiki page. If you're interested in working on any of these, feel free to speak up and ask for more information if you need it. Here are the new

Re: Update to Project_ideas wiki page

2010-11-17 Thread Bart Noordervliet
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 15:31, Hugo Mills hugo-l...@carfax.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:19:45PM -0500, Chris Ball wrote: == Changing RAID levels == We need ioctls to change between different raid levels.  Some of these are quite easy -- e.g. for RAID0 to RAID1, we just halve the

Re: Update to Project_ideas wiki page

2010-11-17 Thread Xavier Nicollet
Le 17 novembre 2010 à 16:12, Bart Noordervliet a écrit: Can I suggest we combine this new RAID level management with a modernisation of the terminology for storage redundancy, as has been discussed previously in the Raid1 with 3 drives thread of March this year? I.e. abandon the burdened raid*

Re: Update to Project_ideas wiki page

2010-11-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Bart Noordervliet b...@noordervliet.net wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 15:31, Hugo Mills hugo-l...@carfax.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:19:45PM -0500, Chris Ball wrote: == Changing RAID levels == We need ioctls to change between different raid

Re: Update to Project_ideas wiki page

2010-11-17 Thread Hugo Mills
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 04:12:29PM +0100, Bart Noordervliet wrote: Can I suggest we combine this new RAID level management with a modernisation of the terminology for storage redundancy, as has been discussed previously in the Raid1 with 3 drives thread of March this year? I.e. abandon the

Re: Update to Project_ideas wiki page

2010-11-17 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 11/17/2010 05:56 PM, Hugo Mills wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 04:12:29PM +0100, Bart Noordervliet wrote: Can I suggest we combine this new RAID level management with a modernisation of the terminology for storage redundancy, as has been discussed previously in the Raid1 with 3 drives thread

Re: Update to Project_ideas wiki page

2010-11-17 Thread Andreas Philipp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17.11.2010 18:56, Hugo Mills wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 04:12:29PM +0100, Bart Noordervliet wrote: Can I suggest we combine this new RAID level management with a modernisation of the terminology for storage redundancy, as has been

Re: Update to Project_ideas wiki page

2010-11-17 Thread Hugo Mills
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 07:14:47PM +0100, Andreas Philipp wrote: On 17.11.2010 18:56, Hugo Mills wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 04:12:29PM +0100, Bart Noordervliet wrote: Can I suggest we combine this new RAID level management with a modernisation of the terminology for storage redundancy,

Re: Update to Project_ideas wiki page

2010-11-17 Thread Bart Kus
On 11/17/2010 10:07 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote: On 11/17/2010 05:56 PM, Hugo Mills wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 04:12:29PM +0100, Bart Noordervliet wrote: Can I suggest we combine this new RAID level management with a modernisation of the terminology for storage redundancy, as has been discussed

Update to Project_ideas wiki page

2010-11-16 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Chris Mason has posted a bunch of interesting updates to the Project_ideas wiki page. If you're interested in working on any of these, feel free to speak up and ask for more information if you need it. Here are the new sections, for the curious: == Block group reclaim == The split between