On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 04:09:15PM +0200, Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Yesterday I created a btrfs-filesystem on two disk, using raid1 for
> data and metadata. I then mounted it and rsynced several TB of data
> onto it.
> 
> mkfs.btrfs -m raid1 -d raid1 /dev/sdf /dev/sdg
> 
> The command btrfs fi df /mnt/btrfs result in the following output:
> 
> Data, RAID1: total=2.64TiB, used=2.22TiB
> Data, single: total=8.00MiB, used=0.00
> System, RAID1: total=8.00MiB, used=380.00KiB
> System, single: total=4.00MiB, used=0.00
> Metadata, RAID1: total=4.00GiB, used=2.94GiB
> Metadata, single: total=8.00MiB, used=0.00
> 
> I am a bit confused because of the "single"-entries. They are not
> shown in the UseCases-example on the btrfs-website and I wonder if I
> did something wrong.

   They're harmless -- it's a side-effect of the way that mkfs works.
They'll go away if you balance them:

   btrfs balance start -dprofiles=single -mprofiles=single -sprofiles=single 
/mountpoint

> I also would like to know if its possible to label a multi-disk
> filesystem after creation. 

   btrfs fi label should do this.

> For your information, I am using Btrfs v3.12+20131125 and kernel
> 3.11.10-7 64bit. My distribution is an openSUSE 13.1.

   You might want to look at upgrading to 3.13 or 3.14 kernel, which
has 6 months or so extra bug fixes in it.

   Hugo.

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