On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 11:03 AM Pete <p...@petezilla.co.uk> wrote: > > I recently recovered created a fresh filesystem on one disk and > recovered from backups with data as SINGLE and metadata as DUP. I added > a second disk yesterday and ran a balance with -dconvert=raid1 > -mconvert=raid1. I did reboot during the process for a couple of > reasons, putting the sides on the PC case, putting it back under the > desk and I updated the kernel from 5.3.9 to 5.2.13 at some point during > this process. Balance resumed as one would expect. Balance has now > completed: > > root@phoenix:~# btrfs balance status /home_data > No balance found on '/home_data' > > However, some metadata remains as DUP which does not seem right: > > root@phoenix:~# btrfs fi usage /home_data/ > Overall: > Device size: 10.92TiB > Device allocated: 4.69TiB > Device unallocated: 6.23TiB > Device missing: 0.00B > Used: 4.61TiB > Free (estimated): 3.15TiB (min: 3.15TiB) > Data ratio: 2.00 > Metadata ratio: 2.00 > Global reserve: 512.00MiB (used: 0.00B) > > Data,RAID1: Size:2.34TiB, Used:2.30TiB > /dev/mapper/data_disk_ESFH 2.34TiB > /dev/mapper/data_disk_EVPC 2.34TiB > > Metadata,RAID1: Size:7.00GiB, Used:4.48GiB > /dev/mapper/data_disk_ESFH 7.00GiB > /dev/mapper/data_disk_EVPC 7.00GiB > > Metadata,DUP: Size:1.00GiB, Used:257.22MiB > /dev/mapper/data_disk_ESFH 2.00GiB > > System,RAID1: Size:32.00MiB, Used:368.00KiB > /dev/mapper/data_disk_ESFH 32.00MiB > /dev/mapper/data_disk_EVPC 32.00MiB > > Unallocated: > /dev/mapper/data_disk_ESFH 3.11TiB > /dev/mapper/data_disk_EVPC 3.11TiB > root@phoenix:~# > > root@phoenix:~# btrfs --version > btrfs-progs v5.1 > > > 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?
btrfs balance start -m convert=raid1,soft should do it.
