Re: btrfs on LVM: Out of space

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Hi,
Have you ever tried with 'mkfs.btrfs -m single /dev/xxxx'?
As you had a RAID1 based on LVM, you don't have to keep
the default duplicated metadata profile in Btrfs.

-zyh

2010/9/8 Marcel Lohmann <marcel.lohmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm really new to btrfs and wanted to give it a try. But now I have
> some strange behavior with a "full disk". My setup is currently as
> follows:
> An LVM volume group that is configured as RAID1. In that there is a
> logical volume of 130 GB in size. So physically 2x130 GB as of RAID 1,
> but logically you can use 130 GB.
> In that complete logical volume I created a btrfs partition. And
> btrfs-show displays 130GB space. Fine.
> Then I started to fill that volume with thousands of files until it
> was unexpectedly "full". But I am sure that there is far less than
> 130GB in files! Now btrfs-show says that I used 130GB of 130GB, while
> df -h shows 38GB of free space. And as I know, df -h has problems to
> determine the real space. So I used "btrfs filesystem df /mountpoint"
> to give me the actual numbers. And that tells me:
> Data: total=23.97GB, used=23.97GB
> Metadata: total=53.01GB, used=33.98GB
> System: total=12.00MB, used=16.00KB
> So what does that mean? I have 130GB disk capacity and I can only use
> 1/5 of that for real data? That can't be true. Even if there is a
> problem with the RAID recognition (but RAID should be invisible for
> btrfs) then I would have 65GB of "available" space, but btrfs
> currently uses 77GB already.
>
> What did I do wrong, or how can I solve that? The kernel is the
> "official" 2.6.35-20-server that ships with Ubuntu 10.10 beta. With
> Ubuntu 10.04 I had the same problem, but there was no "btrfs" command
> and the buggy "df -h" so I thought the new kernel would solve the
> problem. But it does not solve it.
>
> Marcel
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