On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 2:34 AM, Anand Jain <anand.jain@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> (updated the subject, was [1]) >> >>> IMO the hot-spare feature makes most sense with the raid56, >> >> >> Why. ? > > Raid56 is not scalable, has less redundancy in most all > configurations, rebuild impacts the entire array performance, and in > the case of raid6 two drives lost means incredibly slow rebuild. All > of that adds up to more disk for raid56 to be mitigated with a hot > spare being available for immediate rebuild. s/disk/risk -- Chris Murphy -- 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
