Re: good documentation on btrfs internals and on disk layout

2016-03-30 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Liu Bo : On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 01:58:03PM +, sri wrote: Hi, I could find very limited documentation related to on disk layout of btrfs and how all trees are related to each other. Except wiki which has very specific top level details I couldn't able to find

Re: the wiki?

2015-03-31 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting André-Sebastian Liebe an...@lianse.eu: Hi Dave, you should forward your question directly to kernel.org webmaster webmas...@kernel.org. They are using mediawiki in a multisite environment for all kernel.org related wikis. regards, André Thanks! Dave On 03/31/2015 04:00 AM, Dave

the wiki?

2015-03-30 Thread Dave Stevens
I've been reading the wiki to help sort out an issue and learn more about RAID. I wanted to download it to my local drive to read offlibe and that facility sseems to not be there. I checked the mediawiki version in the source and it is an LTS version for which support ends in two months.

OT raid-1 from raid-10?

2015-02-21 Thread Dave Stevens
If there's a better list please say so. I have a raid-10 array with two dirty drives and (according to the kernel) not enough mirrors to repair the raid-10. But I think drives sda and sdb are mirrored and maybe I could read the data off them if I changed the fs type from linux raid

should I use btrfs on Centos 7 for a new production server?

2014-12-30 Thread Dave Stevens
I have a well tested and working fine Centos5-Xen system. Accumulated cruft from various development efforts make it desirable to redo the install. Currently a RAID-10 ext4 filesystem with LVM and 750G of storage. There's a hot spare 750 drive in the system. I'm thinking of migrating the