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From: sam tygier <samtygier@yahoo.co.uk>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: warnings for silly/pointless raid levels
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:20:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <k6kb3g$ae4$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)

Hi,
I recently got into a stick situation because i had a btrfs volume with data in raid1 but metadata as dup. when i removed one of the drives i could not mount as degraded. This was my error as i did not convert the metadata when i converted it from a single/dup volume.

But i wonder if there should be a warning for raid combinations that are probably mistakes. raid1/dup, provides no protection against a failed disk, but uses as much space as if it did. so maybe the tools could have refused to allow it without a --force. 

sam


             reply	other threads:[~2012-10-28 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-28 22:20 sam tygier [this message]
2012-10-29  6:21 ` warnings for silly/pointless raid levels Chris Murphy

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