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RAID 5/6 code merged into Btrfs

RAID 5/6 code merged into Btrfs

Posted Feb 4, 2013 19:57 UTC (Mon) by masoncl (subscriber, #47138)
In reply to: RAID 5/6 code merged into Btrfs by drag
Parent article: RAID 5/6 code merged into Btrfs

Almost. Since the implementation allows us to share stripes between different extents, you might have a shiny new extent going into the same stripe as an old extent.

In this case you need to protect the parity for the old extent just in case we crash while we're rewriting the parity blocks.


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