On 9/8/19 11:18 AM, Pete wrote:
On 9/8/19 8:57 AM, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
On 9/8/19 9:09 AM, Pete wrote:
(snip)
I presume running another balance will fix this, but surely all metadata
should have been converted? Is there a way to only balance the DUP
metadata?
Adding "soft" to -mconvert should do exactly that; it will then skip
any chunks that are already in the target profile.
-h
Appreciated. Fixed it, very rapidly, with:
btrfs bal start -mconvert=raid1,soft /home_data
I think a few examples on the wiki page would be helpful. As I don't do
this sort of maintenance every day I looked at the filter section on the
wiki / man pages online following your prompting and was adding
'type=soft' in various places with no success and it was about the 3rd
reading of the relevant area where I cam up with the above which worked.
IMHO 'soft' should just be the implicit default behaviour for convert,
since it almost always does what one would expect when converting.
I can't think of a good reason why it shouldn't be, but maybe there is
one - Dave?
-h
