Re: btrfs: convert metadata from raid5 to raid1

Hugo Mills
2020-02-17T13:55:45Z

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 02:51:12PM +0100, Menion wrote:
> Also, since the number of HDD is 5, how this "raid1" scheme is deployed?

Two copies of any one piece of data, each copy on a separate
device.

Hugo.

> Il giorno lun 17 feb 2020 alle ore 14:50 Menion <menion@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> >
> > Is it ok to run it on a mounted filesystem with concurrent read and
> > write operations?
> >
> > Il giorno lun 17 feb 2020 alle ore 14:49 Swâmi Petaramesh
> > <swami@petaramesh.org> ha scritto:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On 2020-02-17 14:43, Menion wrote:
> > > > What is the correct procedure to convert metadata from raid5 to proper
> > > > raid scheme (raid1 or)?
> > >
> > > # btrfs balance start -mconvert=raid1 /array/mount/point should do the trick
> > >
> > > ॐ
> > >

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