Messages in this thread | | | From | Chris Mason <> | Subject | Re: [RFC v2 2/2] fs: btrfs: Extends btrfs/raid56 to support up to six parities | Date | Mon, 6 Jan 2014 14:12:56 +0000 |
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On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 10:31 +0100, Andrea Mazzoleni wrote: > This patch changes btrfs/raid56.c to use the new raid interface and > extends its support to an arbitrary number of parities. > > More in details, the two faila/failb failure indexes are now replaced > with a fail[] vector that keeps track of up to six failures, and now > the new raid_par() and raid_rec() functions are used to handle with > parity instead of the old xor/raid6 ones. >
Neat. The faila/failb were always my least favorite part of the btrfs code ;) Did you test just raid5/6 or also the higher parity counts?
-chris
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