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