Re: Why does Btrfs allow raid1 with mismatched drives? Also: How to look behind the curtain

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On Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 10:44 , Hugo Mills wrote:
> You should probably read the mis-named "Sysadmin's Guide" 
> on the wiki[1], which explains what btrfs actually does with its
> replication.
> 
> You should also probably read the FAQ entries on free space[2],
> since using plain "df" for btrfs is usually misleading.

I read both, but it doesn't answer my question on how btrfs behaves when it can't actually do a raid1, because there's not enough data on an "other" disk for a chunk-copy.

> You could run a scrub, which will verify all of the data mirrors on
> the volume, and fix anything that's not redundant.

Will this command fail then for example?

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