Re: Mixing partitioned and non-partitioned discs in a RAID?

2016-08-20 Thread Bearcat Şándor
Thanks for the responses all. I'm on Gentoo as well for what that matters. I think what i'm going to do (if i don't abandon EFI entirely) is just to get a small (16gb), $25 m.2 since my board supports that, and use that as my boot drive. Then mkfs other all discs to be partitionless and away i go.

Re: Mixing partitioned and non-partitioned discs in a RAID?

2016-08-20 Thread Duncan
Chris Murphy posted on Sat, 20 Aug 2016 18:36:21 -0600 as excerpted: > FAT leaves a lot to be desired but it's pretty universally supported and > almost trivial to repair *if* the volume is repairable in the first > place. The much bigger issue with ESP on Linux is this neurotic tendency > of

Re: Mixing partitioned and non-partitioned discs in a RAID?

2016-08-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Alberto Bursi wrote: > > > On 08/20/2016 05:21 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 10:00 PM, Bearcat Şándor >> wrote: >>> >>> I have a btrfs non-raid file system that i'd like to convert to >>>

Possible recursive locking on btrfs_inode::log_mutex

2016-08-20 Thread Ilya Dryomov
Hi, I'm seeing the attached lockdep splat on 4.8-rc2 - I'm guessing it got introduced in 4.8-rc. It appears to be very easy to trigger and shows up within seconds after mkfs + mount. Thanks, Ilya kernel: = kernel: [ INFO: possible

Re: Mixing partitioned and non-partitioned discs in a RAID?

2016-08-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >If you > deleted this udev rule, you run the risk of some boots sometimes > having a slightly delayed drive becoming available and the volume > wrongly being mounted degraded when it's not necessary. Yuck. Revision

Re: Mixing partitioned and non-partitioned discs in a RAID?

2016-08-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 10:00 PM, Bearcat Şándor wrote: > I have a btrfs non-raid file system that i'd like to convert to > raid10. This single device has my efi boot partion on it, so it's > partitioned into sda1 and sda2. I have 3 other discs (sdc-sde) that > i'd like

Re: Mixing partitioned and non-partitioned discs in a RAID?

2016-08-20 Thread Duncan
Bearcat Şándor posted on Fri, 19 Aug 2016 22:00:17 -0600 as excerpted: > I have a btrfs non-raid file system that i'd like to convert to raid10. > This single device has my efi boot partion on it, so it's partitioned > into sda1 and sda2. I have 3 other discs (sdc-sde) that i'd like to make >

Re: Balancing subvolume on a specific device

2016-08-20 Thread Duncan
Hugo Mills posted on Fri, 19 Aug 2016 17:17:34 + as excerpted: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 07:09:48PM +0200, Davide Depau wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a btrfs filesystem spanning over two drives: an SSD and HDD. >> >> Label: 'Android Dev' uuid: ----xxx >>

Re: Mixing partitioned and non-partitioned discs in a RAID?

2016-08-20 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
20.08.2016 07:00, Bearcat Şándor пишет: > I have a btrfs non-raid file system that i'd like to convert to > raid10. This single device has my efi boot partion on it, so it's > partitioned into sda1 and sda2. I have 3 other discs (sdc-sde) that > i'd like to make partition-less systems and then add