Zygo Blaxell posted on Thu, 23 Oct 2014 22:35:29 -0400 as excerpted: > My pet peeve: if balance is converting profiles from RAID1 to single, > the conversion should be *instantaneous* (or at least small_constant * > number_of_block_groups). Pick one mirror, keep all the chunks on that > mirror, delete all the corresponding chunks on the other mirror.
That would argue for either a third balance mode, --convert-only, or a different tool, avoiding a rewrite of existing chunks entirely, simply replicating them if adding redundancy or deleting a copy if reducing it, as necessary. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- 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
