Re: Issue with btrfs balance

2014-02-14 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 02/14/2014 02:56 AM, Brendan Hide wrote: > On 14/02/14 05:42, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: >>> On 2014/02/10 04:33 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: >> Do you happen to know which git repository and branch is >> preferred to base patches on? I'm getting ready to write one to >> fix this, and would

Re: Issue with btrfs balance

2014-02-13 Thread Brendan Hide
On 14/02/14 05:42, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2014/02/10 04:33 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: Do you happen to know which git repository and branch is preferred to base patches on? I'm getting ready to write one to fix this, and would like to make it as easy as possible for the developers t

Re: Issue with btrfs balance

2014-02-13 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 02/10/2014 08:41 AM, Brendan Hide wrote: > On 2014/02/10 04:33 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: >> >> Apparently, trying to use -mconvert=dup or -sconvert=dup on a >> multi-device filesystem using one of the RAID profiles for metadata >> fails with a statement to look at the kernel log, which d

Re: Issue with btrfs balance

2014-02-10 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2014-02-10 08:41, Brendan Hide wrote: > On 2014/02/10 04:33 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: >> >> Apparently, trying to use -mconvert=dup or -sconvert=dup on a >> multi-device filesystem using one of the RAID profiles for metadata >> fails with a statement to look at the kernel log, which doesn'

Re: Issue with btrfs balance

2014-02-10 Thread Brendan Hide
On 2014/02/10 04:33 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: Apparently, trying to use -mconvert=dup or -sconvert=dup on a multi-device filesystem using one of the RAID profiles for metadata fails with a statement to look at the kernel log, which doesn't show anything at all about the failure. ^ If this i

Re: Issue with btrfs balance

2014-02-10 Thread Imran Geriskovan
I've experienced the following with balance: Setup: - Kernel 3.12.9 - 11 DVD sized (4.3GB) loopback devices. (9 Read-Only Seed devices + 2 Read/Write devices) - 9 device seed created with "-m single -d single" and made Read-only with "btrfstune -S 1 ..." - 2 devices was added at different dates. N

Issue with btrfs balance

2014-02-09 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
I just recently discovered something about btrfs filesystem balance that (as far as I can see) isn't documented anywhere, and doesn't necessarily have an obvious (to the average user) explanation. Apparently, trying to use -mconvert=dup or -sconvert=dup on a multi-device filesystem using one of th