I’ve always wondered, given the warnings in documentation, if there are any people brave enough to try Btrfs in a RAID5/6 configuration. Has anyone here actually tried it with “real” data?

  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    I tried it probably a decade ago and it ended badly.

    The last time I checked it seemed like “the powers that be” running btrfs had shifted focus away from raid 5/6 because enterprises didn’t care about it.

    • nani8ot
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Iirc there’s a big upcoming change that improves how btrfs works internally. This might improve btrfs raid 5/6. But yeah, currently it is recommended against btrfs raid 5/6