Switching from OpenMediavault to Rockstor

[mira67 (Mig)]

Hi all, I would be interested in switching from OpenMediavault to Rockstor, I would like to know if your RAID5 is considered stable or not yet, as we read around on the internet

[phillxnet (Philip Guyton)]

@mira67 Welcome to the Rockstor community.

@mira67

I would like to know if your RAID5 is considered stable or not yet,

we use vanilla upstream btrfs code and the usual advise is that the parity raid levels of 5 and 6 are not as yet ready for production. Please see out official doc section on the btrfs raid levels in the Redundancy profiles subsection of the Pool section.
That section also links the btrfs-wiki which in turn links to a relatively recent Status page which is intended as a canonical reference.

See also the following forum threads:

Question about RAID5/6 stability

Hello, I have been following Rockstor for a couple of months with great interest. Now I have purchased a second hand rackmount server to hold some left over hdd’s and I want to use Rockstor on it. My server is an IBM / Xyratex HS-1235e, which is a rebranded Intel SSR212MC2 reference design. I installed Rockstor on it and aside from a few small issues (for which I will open a new discussion) it is working great. This server has 12 3.5" bays and I have 10 2tb disks. I would like to use raid 6,…

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Raid5/6 stability

Hi, it has been some time since i last took a look at rockstor as i have chosen Freenas for my last build as raid5/6 was unstable at the time (and still is it seems) are there any people using raid5/6? have you encountered any errors/bugs? have you had a failed disk and replace it? im in the process of evaluating a solution to use my existing disks with some new to create a single large server instead of two seperate. For this to work my raid/ec needs to be able to grow as ill be adding the…

Hope that helps.