On 06/25/2012 03:28 PM, Gareth Pye wrote: > To me one doesn't have to be triggered, a user expects to have to tell > the disks to rebuild/resync/balance after adding a disk, they may want > to wait till they've added all 4 disks and run a few extra commands > before they run the rebalance. They do? E.g. mdadm doesn't make them... > What is important is having a mode that > doesn't require the user to remember that what they had used as the > closest analogue to RAID1 that BTRFS supports requires them to run > another command to change the 'RAID level' to be the RAID1 analogue for > the new number of disks. > > Users will forget that and they will lose data because of it. At least > with a M=N mode BTRFS can say they tried to make it easy to avoid that > pitfall. Doesn't that contradict your previous statement? In either case, I agree with the latter... -hpa -- 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
