On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 05:24:42PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote:
> How does btrfs raid5 handle mixed-size disks?  The docs weren't
> terribly clear on this.
> 
> Suppose I have 4x3TB and 1x1TB disks.  Using conventional lvm+mdadm in
> raid5 mode I'd expect to be able to fit about 10TB of space on those
> (2TB striped across 4 disks plus 1TB striped across 5 disks after
> partitioning).  How much would btrfs be able to store in the same
> configuration?  I did see something about being able to use fixed-size
> stripes, and I'm not sure if this helps.  If it does, are there any
> penalties, especially with future expansion of the array?
> 
> With raid1 mode btrfrs is reasonably smart about mixed disk sizes, and
> you usually end up with half of the total space available.

   http://carfax.org.uk/btrfs-usage/ may be useful here.

   Hugo.

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