On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 05:46:00PM -0700, Daniel Lee wrote:
> This often seems to confuse people and I think there is a common
> misconception that the btrfs raid/single/dup features work at the file
> level when in reality they work at a level closer to lvm/md.
>
> If someone told you that they lost a device out of a jbod or multi disk
> lvm group(somewhat analogous to -d single) with ext on top you would
> expect them to lose data in any file that had a fragment in the lost
> region (lets ignore metadata for a moment). This is potentially up to
> 100% of the files but this should not be a surprising result. Similarly,
> someone who has lost a disk out of a md/lvm raid0 volume should not be
> surprised to have a hard time recovering any data at all from it.
That's true, but in this case I barely see the point of -m single vs -m
raid0. It sounds like they both stripe data anyway, maybe not at the
same level, but if both are striped, than they're almost the same in my
book :)
Marc
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