Re: multiple device usage

2008-12-31 Thread Chris Samuel
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 8:25:08 am Chris Mason wrote: > This gets confusing in a hurry, but the idea is to duplicate metadata by > default.  So, if you're using the default mount options on a single > drive and add a second drive, it should switch metadata to raid1. Yup, that's what I inferred from y

Re: A bug with multiple devices?

2008-12-31 Thread Chris Samuel
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:43:13 pm Shen Feng wrote: > The problem still exists with -d option. As Chris Mason wrote in response to my query on this it's a known issue that's a consequence of different chunks potentially having different RAID levels. The RAID level itself does appear to work - I te

Re: Btrfs for mainline

2008-12-31 Thread Chris Mason
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 10:45 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:28:55 -0500 Chris Mason wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > Hi! > > > I've done some testing against Linus' git tree from last night and the > > current btrfs trees still work well. > > what's btrfs? I think I've he

Re: Btrfs for mainline

2008-12-31 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:28:55 -0500 Chris Mason wrote: > Hello everyone, Hi! > I've done some testing against Linus' git tree from last night and the > current btrfs trees still work well. what's btrfs? I think I've heard the name before, but I've never seen the patches :) -- To unsubscribe fr

Re: [PATCH] Btrfs-progs: btrfs file system size should be bigger then 256m

2008-12-31 Thread Zach Brown
> + if (block_count < 256*1024*1024) { > + fprintf(stderr, "File system size is > too small\n"); > + exit(1); > + } And please, if you could, include both the size that

Btrfs for mainline

2008-12-31 Thread Chris Mason
Hello everyone, I've done some testing against Linus' git tree from last night and the current btrfs trees still work well. There are a few bug fixes that I need to include from while I was on vacation but I haven't made any large changes since early in December: Btrfs details and usage informat

Re: [PATCH] Btrfs-progs: btrfs file system size should be bigger then 256m

2008-12-31 Thread Shen Feng
My test shows that at least 100M is needed for a btrfs partition. on 12/31/2008 03:41 PM, Lee Trager wrote: > This has been bothering me for some time. Why does btrfs need to have a > disk greater then 256M? I could see a much smaller limit, say 16M but > why so much? The file system itself does n