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 like to

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: snip 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

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. NO

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: snip 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

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