On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Genes MailLists <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/14/2011 10:17 AM, Ric Wheeler wrote: >> On 07/14/2011 02:54 PM, Josef Bacik wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Genes MailLists<lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> I think RAID-5 support would be reasonably important to have too ... I >>>> dont think we want to have raid on top of btrfs ... right? >>>> >>>> Ric - what is the current status of RAID-5 ? >>> This requires some other big changes that are disk format changes. It >>> seems like the big block support will go into 3.1, so after that it >>> should be relatively shortly after that, possibly 3.2 or 3.3. Thanks, >>> >>> Josef >> >> And just to add in here, you can run btrfs on top of MD devices although that is >> not the most popular thing to do currently. >> >> Ric >> > > Thanks Josef/Ric - > > Another (Q) - once the format changes, will there be tools to change > the online format of existing filesystems - or will we need to delete > and start fresh ? > All format changes happen automatically (usually with a mount option so as not to surprise users) online so there's nothing that needs to be done beyond giving the special mount option. Thanks, Josef -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
