On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 10:43 -0500, G. Michael Carter wrote: > I'm pretty sure I know the answers but just wanted confirmation. > > > RAID1: When it reads does it read from only one disk or does it try > to read from multiple disks? The current implementation of RAID1 on btrfs will, with a single process reading, only read from one disk. If there are multiple processes reading, it can have one process read from one disk and one process read from another (the algorithm for this still needs tuning, though.) > Single: When it writes does it simple fill up one drive then move to > the next or does it write in a round robin type fashion? I'm not totally sure, this depends on the vagaries of the chunk allocator. When writing only new files to an initially blank filesystem, I would expect this to be a case; but on a used filesystem you will probably get files fragmented over both disks. > -- > 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
