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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 20:48:47 +0000
From: Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: btrfs balance {,meta}data to raid5 not working?
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On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 10:47:33PM +0200, Philip Seeger wrote:
> A two-drive RAID5? Try 3 drives (btrfs dev add <new-drive>
> /mountpoint first).

   2-drive RAID-5 should work on btrfs. It's functionally equivalent
to RAID-1.

   Hugo.

> On 04/11/2015 12:10 AM, Piotr Szymaniak wrote:
> > I tried today to balance two drive btrfs raid1 to two drive btrfs raid5
> 
> 

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