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Kish
Mar 22, 2013Aspirant
Questions about OS 6
After reading up on Btrfs, I also do NOT understand the logic in not allowing current ARM and x86 Series owners to upgrade to OS 6. Since Btrfs can do “In-place ext3/4 conversion” (see: https://en.wi...
TeknoJnky
Mar 22, 2013Hero
I don't think btrfs supports raid 5/6 yet, which may be one large reason why legacy devices are not supported.
from the wiki article linked above;
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
from the wiki article linked above;
Planned features include:
Online filesystem check[30]
Very fast offline filesystem check[citation needed]
Parity-based RAID (RAID5 and RAID6)[30]
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
Coming in 3.9
preliminary Raid 5/6 support (details in the announcement)
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