On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:27 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yet another boot loader support request. > > Right now btrfs' definition of "RAID-1" with more than two devices is a > bit unorthodox: it stores on any two drives. "True RAID-1" would > instead store N copies on each of N devices, the same way an actual > RAID-1 would operate with an arbitrary number of devices. > > This means that a bootloader can consider a single device in isolation: > if the firmware gives access only to a single device, it can be booted. > Since /boot is usually a very small amount of data, this is a very > reasonable tradeoff. +1 In fact, the current RAID-1 should not have been called RAID-1 at all, it is confusing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
