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Btrfs on top of a mdadm raid10, or btrfs raid10 on bare devices?
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Mar 15, 20266650 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have a RAID10 managed by the and I have EXT4 filesystem on top of it. However, I like BTRFS and would like to convert the EXT4 filesystem to BTRFS, but I was thinking about performance and maintainability. For an example with BTRFS, I can't easily see the status when I remove/add another disk to …
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Let Btrfs do everything. For one thing, Btrfs has its own integrated mirroring code which can be smarter than madm. Of course if a disk fails hard in a mirrored pair in an madm raid10, you can replace the bad disk and move on with your life (albeit …
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