Re: Btrfs - distribute files equally across multiple devices

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On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 18:22:52 +0200
Johannes Pfrang <johannespfrang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The simplest implementation would probably be something like: Always
> write files to the disk with the least amount of space used. I think
> this may be a valid software-raid use-case, as it combines RAID 0 (w/o
> some of the performance gains[2]) with recoverability of about half of
> the data/files (balanced by filled space or amount of files) in the
> event of a drive-failure[3] by using filesystem information a
> hardware-raid doesn't have. In the end this is more or less JBOD with
> balanced disk usage + filesystem intelligence.

mhddfs does exactly that: https://romanrm.net/mhddfs

-- 
With respect,
Roman

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