Re: SATA/SAS mixed pool

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Adam Borowski posted on Thu, 13 Dec 2018 08:29:05 +0100 as excerpted:

> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 09:31:02PM -0600, Nathan Dehnel wrote:
>> Is it possible/safe to replace a SATA drive in a btrfs RAID10 pool with
>> an SAS drive?
> 
> For btrfs, a block device is a block device, it's not "racist".
> You can freely mix and/or replace.  If you want to, say, extend a SD
> card with NBD to remote spinning rust, it works well -- tested :p

FWIW (mostly for other readers not so much this particular case) the 
known exception/caveat to that is USB block devices, which do tend to 
have problems, tho some hardware is fine.

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