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. -- robinbowes Net-UDAP is free software - you do not have to pay for it. However, if you found it useful, please consider donating: https://projects.robinbowes.com/Net-UDAP/trac#Donations ------------------------------------------------------------------------ robinbowes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=480 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89504 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
