Chris Murphy posted on Sat, 24 Aug 2013 23:18:26 -0600 as excerpted:
On Aug 24, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Joel Johnson mrj...@lixil.net wrote:
Similar to what Duncan described in his response, on a hot-remove
(without doing the proper btrfs device delete), there is no opportunity
for a rebalance
On Aug 25, 2013, at 6:12 AM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote:
The degraded mount option does indeed simply ALLOW mounting without all
devices. If all devices can be found, btrfs will still integrate them
all, regardless of the mount option.
I understand btrfs handling is necessarily
On Aug 23, 2013, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote:
When replacing a failed disk, I'd like btrfs to compare states between
the
available drives and know that it needs to catch up the newly added
device,
but this doesn't yet happen. It's necessary to call btrfs balance.
I can only
On 2013-08-24 11:24, Joel Johnson wrote:
Should I file a few bugs to capture the related issues? Here are the
discrete issues that seem to be present from a user point of view:
After writing this, I figured I'd experiment with the current state and
try to properly delete and add the sdd
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Joel Johnson mrj...@lixil.net wrote:
On 2013-08-24 11:24, Joel Johnson wrote:
Should I file a few bugs to capture the related issues? Here are the
discrete issues that seem to be present from a user point of view:
After writing this, I figured I'd experiment
On 2013-08-24 14:30, Sandy McArthur wrote:
I was surprised to find
that I'm not allowed to remove one of the two drives in a RAID1. Kernel
message is btrfs: unable to go below two devices on raid1 Not
allowing it
by default makes some sense, however a --force flag or something would
be
On Aug 24, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Joel Johnson mrj...@lixil.net wrote:
Similar to what Duncan described in his response, on a hot-remove (without
doing the proper btrfs device delete), there is no opportunity for a
rebalance or metadata change on the pulled drives, so I would expect there to
On Aug 23, 2013, at 6:05 PM, Joel Johnson mrj...@lixil.net wrote:
What is the expectation on hot-adding a failed drive, is an explicit 'device
add' or 'replace' expected/required?
I'd expect to have to add a device and then remove missing. There isn't a readd
option in btrfs, which in md
