For some reason, this did not come through... ------ Weitergeleitete Nachricht ------ Von: "Hendrik Friedel" <hend...@friedels.name> An: "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org> Gesendet: 25.05.2019 15:21:43 Betreff: Re: Migration to BTRFS
Hello now after the filesystem worked fine as a single drive for a while, I'd like to add the second device. Status: btrfs fi show . Label: 'DataPool1' uuid: c4a6a2c9-5cf0-49b8-812a-0784953f9ba3 Total devices 1 FS bytes used 6.61TiB devid 1 size 7.28TiB used 6.89TiB path /dev/sdh1
I intend to move to BTRFS and of course I have some data already. I currently have several single 4TB drives and I would like to move the Data onto new drives (2*8TB). I need no raid, as I prefer a backup. Nevertheless, having raid nice for availability. So why not in the end. I currently use ~6TB, so it may work, but I would be able to remove the redundancy later. So, if I understand correctly, today I want -m raid1 -d raid1 whereas later, I want -m raid1 -d single What is very important to me is, that with one failing drive, I have no risk of losing the whole filesystem, but only losing the affected drive. Is that possible with both of these variants?
So, now I'd like to go this step: -m raid1 -d raid1 Is it correct to: btrfs device add /dev/sdd /srv/DataPool btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid1 -mconvert=raid1 Or is there anything else, that I need to take care off? There is not so much space left. Is it sufficient for the balance? Regards, Hendrik