gharris999;648695 Wrote: 
> Does anyone have any experience using btrfs with multiple discs?
> 
> I have 3 1T drives in my system, unpartitioned: sdb, sdc & sdd.
> 
> It looks like:
> 
> # mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdc 
> 
> ..will create a file system spanning the three devices.  The btrfs wiki
> says that the data will be striped and the metadata mirrored.  See:
> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Using_Btrfs_with_Multiple_Devices
> 
> Is there any real data redundancy here?  I.e., is there any recovery
> possible from a drive failure?  Or does one have to specifically
> incorporate more raid features into this setup?

Any reason in particular you want to use btrfs? I don't think it does
RAID5 yet - just 0,1,10. (I'm no expert).

I'd be looking at mdadm (to create a RAID device) and probably LVM on
top of that, then use ext3/4.

R.


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