From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp.domeneshop.no ([194.63.252.55]:48906 "EHLO smtp.domeneshop.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727615AbeGSWHE (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2018 18:07:04 -0400 Reply-To: waxhead@dirtcellar.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] 3- and 4- copy RAID1 To: Hugo Mills , Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org References: <9945d460-99b5-a927-a614-c797bbc7862d@dirtcellar.net> <793d8ec3-7934-ea60-521d-7a039c9f1ce9@libero.it> <20180718125017.GC21293@carfax.org.uk> From: waxhead Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 23:22:05 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180718125017.GC21293@carfax.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hugo Mills wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 08:39:48AM +0000, Duncan wrote: >> Duncan posted on Wed, 18 Jul 2018 07:20:09 +0000 as excerpted: >> >> Perhaps it's a case of coder's view (no code doing it that way, it's just >> a coincidental oddity conditional on equal sizes), vs. sysadmin's view >> (code or not, accidental or not, it's a reasonably accurate high-level >> description of how it ends up working most of the time with equivalent >> sized devices).) > > Well, it's an *accurate* observation. It's just not a particularly > *useful* one. :) > > Hugo. > A bit off topic perhaps - but I've got to give it a go: Pretty please with sugar, nuts, a cherry and chocolate sprinkles dipped in syrup and coated with icecream on top , would it not be about time to update your online btrfs-usage calculator (which is insanely useful in so many ways) to support the new modes!? In fact it would have been a great- / even better as a- cli-tool. And yes, a while ago I toyed about porting it to C for own use mostly, but never got that far.