Zygo Blaxell posted on Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:55:45 -0400 as excerpted: > The current btrfs raid5 implementation is a thin layer of bugs on top of > code that is still missing critical pieces. There is no mechanism to > prevent RMW-related failures combined with zero tolerance for > RMW-related failures in metadata, so I expect a btrfs filesystem using > raid5 metadata to be extremely fragile. Failure is not likely--it's > *inevitable*.
Wow, that's a signature-quality quote reflecting just how dire the situation with btrfs parity-raid is ATM. First sentence for a short sig, full paragraph for a longer one. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- 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
