On Jan 30, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Hugo Mills <h...@carfax.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:33:21AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Jan 29, 2014, at 12:16 PM, Johan Kröckel <johan.kroec...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> My situation: >>> >>> Former btrfs-RAID1 on two luks encrypted partitions (bunkerA and bunkerB). >>> Disk holding bunkerB died online. >>> Now I started rebalancing bunkerA to single, >> >> >> You're doing an online conversion of a degraded raid1 volume into single? >> Does anyone know if this is expected or intended to work? > > I don't see why not. One suggested method of recovering RAID from a > degraded situation is to rebalance over just the remaining devices > (space permitting, of course). Right but that's not a conversion. That's a regular balance on a degraded mount, with multiple remaining devices: e.g. a 4 disk raid1, drive fails, mount -o degraded, delete missing, then balance will replicate any missing 2nd copies onto three drives. The bigger problem at the moment is that -o degraded isn't working for Johan. The too many missing devices message seems like a bug and with limited information it may even be whatever that bug is, that cause the conversion to fail. Some 11GB were converted prior to the failure. Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
