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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: adding new devices to degraded raid1
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 12:41:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200827124147.GA16923@dcvr> (raw)

I don't need to do it right away, but is it possible to add new
devices to a degraded raid1?

One thing I might do in the future is replace a broken big drive
with two small drives.  It may even be used to migrate to SSDs.

Since btrfs-replace only seems to do 1:1 replacements, and I
needed to physically remove an existing broken device to make
room for the replacements, could I do something like:

	mount -o degraded /mnt/foo
	btrfs device add small1 small2 /mnt/foo
	btrfs device remove broken /mnt/foo

?

Anyways, so far raid1 has been working great for me, but I have
some devices nearing 70K Power_On_Hours according to SMART

Thanks.

             reply	other threads:[~2020-08-27 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-27 12:41 Eric Wong [this message]
2020-08-27 17:14 ` adding new devices to degraded raid1 Goffredo Baroncelli
2020-08-28  0:30   ` Zygo Blaxell
2020-08-28  2:34     ` Eric Wong
2020-08-28  4:36       ` Zygo Blaxell
2020-08-28  5:09         ` Andrei Borzenkov
2020-08-28 20:56           ` Zygo Blaxell
2020-08-29  0:42         ` Eric Wong
2020-08-29 18:46           ` Zygo Blaxell

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