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 -- 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
