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Btrfs Working On RAID1 Round-Robin Read Balancing


It's been a while since there has been anything new to report on the Btrfs file-system's built-in RAID functionality but that is changing with RAID1 round-robin read balancing.

It's been a while since there has been anything new to report on the Btrfs file-system's built-in RAID functionality but that is changing with RAID1 round-robin read balancing. This means of balancing RAID1 reads across all striped devices in a round robin mode though is initially treated as an experimental option. These Btrfs RAID1 round-robin read patches are currently in David Sterba's "for-next" branch so we could see this support come for the upcoming Linux 6.14 merge window.

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