On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 13:38:55 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:

> > The same is also  possible with BTRFS, including built in RAID. RAID5
> > in btrfs is expermiental, but its RAID1 is like RAID5 in some ways,
> > such as giving the capacity of n-1 disks and tolerating a single disk
> > failure. 
> 
> btrfs raid5 is still fairly experimental (though now it supports
> recovery) and works more-or-less how you'd expect raid5 to work.
> Raid1 on btrfs gives you the capacity of n/2 and not n-1 disks,

You're right, I was clearly confused (an oxymoron?) when I wrote that.

So RAID1 gives less capacity than RAID5 on BTRFS, but it is stable (in
btrfs terms).


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