Re: pro/cons of raid1 with mdadm/lvm2

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On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When the 2 disks have different data mdadm has no way of knowing which one is correct and has a 50% chance of overwriting good data. But BTRFS does checksums on all reads and solves the problem of corrupt data - as long as you don't have 2 corrupt sectors in matching blocks.

Yeah. I'm not sure though if openSUSE 13.2 prevents users from
creating btrfs raid1 volumes entirely, or if it's just an install time
limitation.

I know that Fedora's installer won't allow the user to create Btrfs on
LVM, and it probably doesn't allow it on md raid either.

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Chris Murphy
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