Btrfs Gets More RAID 5/6 Fixes In Linux 4.16

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 29 January 2018 at 08:40 PM EST. 47 Comments
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The Btrfs file-system updates were mailed in and subsequently pulled today to the mainline tree for the Linux 4.16 kernel merge window.

There are some minor improvements like a zero range mode for fallocate, code clean-ups, improved bio merging on multiple devices, compression heuristic changes, and other small work.

Recent kernel updates have also seen needed improvements to Btrfs' RAID5/RAID6 code and that has continued too with Linux 4.16. RAID5/6 recovery code will not use cached stripes to avoid a situation that could lead to corruption or failures in the future. The Btrfs code for this kernel will also try harder to rebuild damaged data in RAID5/RAID6 arrays. There is also a fix for the scrubbing code to repair RAID5/6 in a better way.

The complete list of Btrfs kernel driver changes for Linux 4.16 can be found via this already honored pull request.
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