[sles-beta] SLES12 :: BTRFS RAID5

[Lawton Bonnevialle]

Thanks ALL.


On 09/02/2014 01:10 PM, Matthias G. Eckermann wrote:
> Hello Lawton and all,
>
> On 2014-09-02 T 11:36 -0300 Lawton Bonnevialle wrote:
>
>> Do you feel good work it on a server with 4 or 6 4TB
>> drives (SATA) in RAID5? Is stable for production
>> server?
> - Hardware RAID: yes.
>
> - Software RAID using "MD RAID": yes.
>
> - We do not (yet) support using RAID 5 with btrfs'
>    native RAID implementation, and in fact the btrfs
>    kernel module on SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 does
>    not show this option even, .... This will need
>    some time to mature.
>
> On 2014-09-02 T 17:05 +0200 Bjoern Lotz wrote:
>
>> independently of the RAID question, that size does
>> not sound like it is used for the / file system but
>> for some partition that holds data of some sort.
>>
>> The recommendation for data partitions is to use XFS,
>> not Btrfs, so maybe Btrfs is not the perfect choice
>> anyway, RAID or no RAID.
>   
> That's true as well. Except for specific use cases
> (such as using a Samba Fileserver with snapshots
> (Windows versioning) via the btrfs backend) we
> recommend xfs as the filesystem for data.
>
> so long -
> 	MgE
>

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