On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 10:31 +-0100, Andrea Mazzoleni wrote: +AD4- This patch changes btrfs/raid56.c to use the new raid interface and +AD4- extends its support to an arbitrary number of parities. +AD4- +AD4- More in details, the two faila/failb failure indexes are now replaced +AD4- with a fail+AFsAXQ- vector that keeps track of up to six failures, and now +AD4- the new raid+AF8-par() and raid+AF8-rec() functions are used to handle with +AD4- parity instead of the old xor/raid6 ones. +AD4- Neat. The faila/failb were always my least favorite part of the btrfs code +ADs-) Did you test just raid5/6 or also the higher parity counts? -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
