Re: Status of raid5/6 in 2014?

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On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 11:45 -0500, Dave wrote:
+AD4- Back in Feb 2013 there was quite a bit of press about the preliminary
+AD4- raid5/6 implementation in Btrfs.  At the time it wasn't useful for
+AD4- anything other then testing and it's my understanding that this is
+AD4- still the case.
+AD4- 
+AD4- I've seen a few git commits and some chatter on this list but it would
+AD4- appear the developers are largely silent.  Parity based raid would be
+AD4- a powerful addition the the Btrfs feature stack and it's the feature I
+AD4- most anxiously await.  Are there any milestones planned for 2014?
+AD4- 
+AD4- Keep up the good work...

Thanks+ACE-  The big thing missing from RAID5/6 has been logging of parity
to make sure the parity is consistent after a power outage.  I'm back on
this now, and making some progress.

We also need to fix scrub support for raid5/6, which will happen after
the parity work.

-chris

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