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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: converting one-disk btrfs into RAID-1?
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:11:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CB2FF03.8090608@wpkg.org> (raw)

Some Linux distributions started adding btrfs support in their 
installers. Unfortunately, you can't specify your own mkfs.btrfs 
parameters, so the best an installer can produce is a btrfs filesystem 
made on one partition.

Is it possible to turn a 1-disk (partition) btrfs filesystem into RAID-1?

Suppose you have your / btrfs filesystem on /dev/vda3, and there is a 
free /dev/vdb3 partition which you would like to use to have btrfs 
RAID-1 - what are the options to set it up like this?


A command like:

	btrfs device add /dev/vdb3 /

will, I suppose, simply make RAID-0 and double your available storage - 
are there any options to make it RAID-1?

Or, will it be RAID-1 after I do:

	btrfs filesystem balance /

?

-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

             reply	other threads:[~2010-10-11 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-11 12:11 Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2010-10-11 17:06 ` converting one-disk btrfs into RAID-1? Chris Ball
2010-10-12  9:32   ` David Brown
2010-10-12  9:34     ` Tomasz Torcz
2010-10-12  9:49       ` Hugo Mills
2010-10-12  9:59         ` Tomasz Torcz
2010-10-12 12:19       ` David Brown

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