Re: btrfs raid assurance

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On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 10:55:18AM -0300, Hérikz Nawarro wrote:
> And btw, my current disk conf is a 1x 500GB, 2x3TB and a 5TB.

   OK, so by my mental arithmetic(*), you'd get:

 -  9.5  TB usable in RAID-0
 - 11.5  TB usable in single mode
 -  5.75 TB usable in RAID-1

   Hugo.

(*) Which may be a bit wobbly. :)

> 2017-07-25 10:51 GMT-03:00 Hugo Mills <hugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 01:46:56PM +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 09:55:37AM -0300, Hérikz Nawarro wrote:
> >> > Hello everyone,
> >> >
> >> > I'm migrating to btrfs and i would like to know, in a btrfs filesystem
> >> > with 4 disks (multiple sizes) with -d raid0 & -m raid1, how many
> >> > drives can i lost without losing the entire array?
> >
> >    Oh, and one other thing -- if you have different-sized devices,
> > RAID-0 is probably the wrong thing to be using anyway, as you won't be
> > able to use the difference between the largest and second-largest
> > device. If you want to use all the space on the available devices,
> > then "single" mode is probably better (although you still lose a lot
> > of data if a device breaks), or RAID-1 (which will cope well with the
> > different sizes as long as the largest device is smaller than the rest
> > of them added together).
> >
> >    You can see about the disk usage in different scenarios with the
> > online tool at:
> >
> > http://carfax.org.uk/btrfs-usage/
> >
> >    Hugo.
> >

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