Re: btrfs fi df gives only the total size that is currently allocated

[Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@kepstin.ca>]

On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 21:16 +0200, Gal Buki wrote:
> Hi
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> I made a test RAID 10 with several old disks with various sizes.
> I copied some files (~800MB)
> When using btrfs fi df /mountpoint I get
> Data: total=3D1.00GB, used=3D800.00MB
> When I copy another ~800MB I get a total size of 2GB.
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> This goes on and on until I hit the max size of the RAID.
> e.g.
> Data: total=3D5.00GB, used=3D4.97GB
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> Is there a way to see what the max size will be without having to fil=
l=20
> the RAID first?

As I understand it: the simple answer is, unfortunately, =E2=80=9Cno=E2=
=80=9D. Because
metadata and data chunks are allocated on demand depending on how you
use the space, the best you could do would be to make a guess based on
current allocation ratios.

That is something which is pretty hard to do manually though=E2=80=94
particularly in the case of differently-sized disks=E2=80=94so some sor=
t of
estimation tool could be useful. (But it would be just that: an
estimate, not an exact count.)

This will get worse once btrfs supports having data with different raid
levels on the same filesystem, because you=E2=80=99ll have different am=
ounts of
=E2=80=9Cavailable=E2=80=9D space depending on which raid type the data=
 in question is
stored with.

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Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@kepstin.ca>

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