From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>
Cc: Btrfs BTRFS <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: balance conversion from RAID-1 to RAID-10 leaves some metadata in RAID-1?
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 16:39:17 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fdcfef7036565db2d2fb26d715dce0c1@wpkg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJCQCtTq_ccnhV9BPU3CA08=m6LDtSxgyve_GUckpPB2HKC1fw@mail.gmail.com>
On 2020-03-02 15:29, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 3:41 AM Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> To my surprise, some metadata is still RAID-1 - is it expected?
>
> I'd say it's not expected but also balance is pretty complicated. Try
>
> 'btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid10,soft /mountpoint/'
>
> What does dmesg report for that command? And are those raid1 bg's
> converted to raid10? I don't think it should matter in this case, but
> what's the btrfs-progs version?
I did one more balance, for metadata only:
btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid10 /mountpoint/
And it fully converted the remaining RAID-1 metadata to RAID-10.
Still, a bit "weird".
btrfs-progs is 5.4.1.
Tomasz Chmielewski
https://lxadm.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-02 7:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-01 10:30 balance conversion from RAID-1 to RAID-10 leaves some metadata in RAID-1? Tomasz Chmielewski
2020-03-02 6:29 ` Chris Murphy
2020-03-02 7:39 ` Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2020-03-02 21:03 ` Chris Murphy
2020-03-02 9:37 ` Hugo Mills
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