I think you just described all the benefits of btrfs in that type of configuration .... unfortunately after btrfs RAID 5 & 6 was marked as OK it got marked as "it will eat your data" (and there is a tone of people in random places poping up with raid 5 & 6 that just killed their data) On 11 October 2016 at 16:14, Philip Louis Moetteli <Philip.Moetteli@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > > I have to build a RAID 6 with the following 3 requirements: > > • Use different kinds of disks with different sizes. > • When a disk fails and there's enough space, the RAID should be able to reconstruct itself out of the degraded state. Meaning, if I have e. g. a RAID with 8 disks and 1 fails, I should be able to chose to transform this in a non-degraded (!) RAID with 7 disks. > • Also the other way round: If I add a disk of what size ever, it should redistribute the data, so that it becomes a RAID with 9 disks. > > I don’t care, if I have to do it manually. > I don’t care so much about speed either. > > Is BTrFS capable of doing that? > > > Thanks a lot for your help! > -- 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
