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From: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
To: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Cc: Grady Neely <grady.neely@adtran.com>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Raid1 with 3 drives
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:58:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3iq9av8uv.fsf@pullcord.laptop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100305194047.GA15771@localhost.localdomain> (Josef Bacik's message of "Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:40:47 -0500")

Hi,

   > DF with btrfs is a loaded question.  In the RAID1 case you are
   > going to show 3TB of free space, but everytime you use some space
   > you are going to show 3 times the amount used (I think thats
   > right).  There are some patches forthcoming to make the reporting
   > for RAID stuff make more sense, but for the time being just
   > ignore df.

Added to:

http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#Why_does_df_show_incorrect_free_space_for_my_RAID_volume.3F

since we're often seeing this question on the list and IRC.

- Chris.
-- 
Chris Ball   <cjb@laptop.org>
One Laptop Per Child

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-05 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-05 19:28 Raid1 with 3 drives Grady Neely
2010-03-05 19:40 ` Josef Bacik
2010-03-05 19:58   ` Chris Ball [this message]
2010-03-05 20:29     ` Grady Neely
2010-03-05 20:31       ` Josef Bacik
2010-03-05 21:49         ` Bart Noordervliet
2010-03-05 22:13           ` Mike Fedyk
2010-03-05 22:27             ` Hubert Kario
2010-03-06  1:02           ` Ravi Pinjala

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