"Chris Murphy, contributor to BTRFS, wrote to the mailing, “What’s very clear by now is that RAID56 mode as it currently exists is more or less fatally flawed, and a full scrap and rewrite to an entirely different RAID56 mode on-disk format may be necessary to fix it.” - See more at: http://sdtimes.com/btrfs-raid-code-needs-rewrite/#sthash.TX1Rohrb.dpuf"
Yikes!!! That's definitely not what you want to hear.
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Keith C. Perry, MS E.E.
From: "Lee H. Marzke" <lee@marzke.net>
To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2016 4:33:02 PM
Subject: [PLUG] BTRFS RAID massively broken
http://sdtimes.com/btrfs-raid-code-needs-rewrite/
Glad i've stayed away from BTRFS, I'm still on ZFS / FreeNAS for my storage array.
Lee
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