BTRFS RAID10 on Gentoo

Sun, 08 Jan 2017 16:59:10 +0000

Btrfs is fairly stable and with the latest kernels it is becoming even a better alternative to the most commonly used EXT4 and XFS filesystems.
While not being always better or faster it brings to the table a huge amount of improvements that makes it by far the best filesystems for storage.
XFS itself is moving in the very same direction and will probably have in the near future some of the features Btrfs already has (e.g. copy on write).
No MDADM or partitioning is needed, to create a RAID10 with 4 HDD just type (where /dev/sd[X] is the disk whole disk, not a partition):

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BTRFS RAID10 on Gentoo