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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
