On Fri, 9 Nov 2012 10:47:39 +0000, David Pottage wrote:
> Are you assuming the user is only replacing one device at once?
> 
> If the user is upgrading their disc array to increase the capacity (or 
> speed), then it would make sense for them to replace all the drives in the 
> array at once. Is that supported?
> 
> For example, could a user with a 4 drive array of 1Tb drives, fit 4 new 2Tb 
> drives, then call btrfs replace mountpoint <old> <new> 4 times, leave the 
> system overnight to copy the data, and remove the old drives in the morning.

Yes, one device at once.

"btrfs replace start ... & btrfs replace start ..." is not supported.

"btrfs replace start -B ... ; btrfs replace start -B ..." is the
designated way to replace multiple disks.

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