> > Then there's raid10, which takes more drives and is faster, but is still > limited to two mirrors. But while I haven't actually used raid10 myself, > I do /not/ believe it's limited to pair-at-a-time additions. I believe > it'll take, for instance five devices, just fine, staggering chunk > allocation as necessary to fill all at about the same rate. > I am running just that: 3 separate raid10 btrfs filesystems (root, home, media/backups) on 5 drives and they are unequal sizes too! My newer drives are bigger and have higher transfer rates which means they get more chunks but overall performance doesn't suffer. -- 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
