From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Recovery advice
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 22:19:31 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan$b7e2c$bf7f3666$af6e4a6$909b9d97@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: kpu1da-elm.ln1@hurikhan.ath.cx
Kai Krakow posted on Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:41:54 +0200 as excerpted:
> It is a RAID-1 so why bother with the faulty drive? Just wipe it, put it
> back in, then run a btrfs balance... There should be no data loss
> because all data is stored twice (two-way mirroring).
The caveat would be if it didn't start as btrfs raid1, and there's still
some data (or possibly metadata if it was the single drive at one point
or they're ssds, as btrfs defaults to metadata single in ssd mode) that
hasn't been duped elsewhere.
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-04 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-26 20:31 Recovery advice Sandy McArthur
2013-08-04 12:41 ` Kai Krakow
2013-08-04 22:19 ` Duncan [this message]
2013-08-04 23:05 ` Kai Krakow
2013-08-05 15:44 ` Sandy McArthur
2013-08-04 23:13 ` Chris Murphy
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