From: Piotr Szymaniak <szarpaj@grubelek.pl>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using two mirrored drives separately
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 22:20:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140920202003.GU1945@wloczykij> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOwCge2f+s0BdUXYnMuX_iyXLcsq-FtftqT-yf1GSvyhhT9kdg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 07:11:52PM +0300, Leonid Bloch wrote:
> I am wondering: if I set up btrfs on two identical drives, with data
> and metadata mirroring, will it be possible to use these drives
> separately later on? Will just one of these drives work as a regular
> btrfs-formatted single drive if connected to a different machine?
If by this you mean btrfs raid1, then yes, they will work this way. Just
both of them will have "missing" device and, afaik, wont mount without
-o degraded. But then you can rebalance to notraid1 or add another disk
and replace missing devices on new machines.
Piotr Szymaniak.
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2014-09-20 16:11 Using two mirrored drives separately Leonid Bloch
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