From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from magic.merlins.org ([209.81.13.136]:46123 "EHLO mail1.merlins.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932124AbaCPXRk (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Mar 2014 19:17:40 -0400 Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:17:29 -0700 From: Marc MERLIN To: Chris Murphy Cc: Btrfs Message-ID: <20140316231729.GA29149@merlins.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: How to handle a RAID5 arrawy with a failing drive? Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: References: <20140316222026.GU16946@merlins.org> On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 05:12:10PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Mar 16, 2014, at 4:55 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > Then use btrfs replace start. > > Looks like in 3.14rc6 replace isn't yet supported. I get "dev_replace cannot yet handle RAID5/RAID6". > > When I do: > btrfs device add > > The command hangs, no kernel messages. Ok, that's kind of what I thought. So, for now, with raid5: - btrfs seems to handle a drive not working - you say I can mount with the drive missing in degraded mode (I haven't tried that, I will) - but no matter how I remove the faulty drive, there is no rebuild on a new drive procedure that works yet Correct? Thanks, Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP 1024R/763BE901