This is one of those features that I have been waiting for since I signed up for the mailing list last year. What source tree is that code contained in? I would like to start testing it out and helping out with bug reports(I am only going to use it in a testing VM, nothing important to work at all). Maybe if I help get it tested and play around with it I will be familiar when it is really pushed out and also I can help speed up the development process. Starting with RAID 1 is an expensive choice for me, I have 8TB of data(backed up to a friend) that I would have in this array. I was hoping I could do a RAID 5 of 4 3TB disks and grow it to a RAID 6 of 6 disks in a few months when I need more storage. Mike On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Andreas Philipp <philipp.andreas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 10/22/2012 06:05 PM, Hugo Mills wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:58:07AM -0500, Michael wrote: >>> Does anyone know when RAID 5/6 are planned to be included in the >>> Kernel? >> >> This is in the FAQ: >> >> > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#Can_I_use_RAID.5B56.5D_on_my_Btrfs_filesystem.3F >> >> Short answer: Not yet, probably soon. >> >>> I am starting to buy parts for my next computer and would very >>> much like to use BTRFS because I want a FS that can grow and also >>> recover from undetected read errors - it will be large enough that >>> these are possible. I'm hoping that it will be available for use in >>> the coming months. >> >> You can switch storage types on the fly, so you could at least >> start with RAID-1, and then restripe to RAID-5 (or -6) when it's >> stable enough for you. This assumes that you can manage to use RAID-1 >> in the first place and expand later. > If you can live without redundancy at the beginning, you could also > start with RAID-0, and then restripe to RAID-5. > > Andreas > > -- > 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 -- 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
