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Btrfs RAID5/6... anyone here every tried it? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] _HR_ 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd like to hear more. Are you still using it? What's kind of data do/did you store on it?

[–] _HR_ 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, as in, there were people using Btrfs RAID 5/6. It didn't end well. Not that I've used it - I very much prefer having my data safe.

The warnings in the docs are there for a reason - those modes of Btrfs simply aren't finished and thus aren't fit to be used.

You can test this yourself easily in a VM, this will let you see how things fail for Btrfs 5/6 when one of the disks "fails".