converting one-disk btrfs into RAID-1?

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Some Linux distributions started adding btrfs support in their installers. Unfortunately, you can't specify your own mkfs.btrfs parameters, so the best an installer can produce is a btrfs filesystem made on one partition.

Is it possible to turn a 1-disk (partition) btrfs filesystem into RAID-1?

Suppose you have your / btrfs filesystem on /dev/vda3, and there is a free /dev/vdb3 partition which you would like to use to have btrfs RAID-1 - what are the options to set it up like this?


A command like:

	btrfs device add /dev/vdb3 /

will, I suppose, simply make RAID-0 and double your available storage - are there any options to make it RAID-1?

Or, will it be RAID-1 after I do:

	btrfs filesystem balance /

?

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Tomasz Chmielewski
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