Re: btrfs -- what happens when a checksum fails on a single disk?

Avi Miller wrote:

Note that the restripe functionality was merged into Chris' tree about a week ago, so it's brand-new. There is a lot going into btrfs and I suspect more happening in the code than on the wiki.

& IIRC the wiki on kernel.org is still read-only after the breakin, there is a writable version... somewhere else, I forget. A few people I've spoken to have been running btrfs as a DKMS, thereby allowing them to keep their otherwise-stable 2.6.32 (then) or 3.2 (now) or whatever kernel. This seems like a reasonable approach to me, except maybe if your /boot or / are on btrfs (cf. say, /srv).