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

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On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 13:26, Fabian Zeindl <fabian.zeindl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Jan 5, 2012, at 11:39 , Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>> "Allocating as many chunks as can fit across the drives" is also pretty
>> clear to me. So if BTRFS can´t allocate a new chunk on two devices, its
>> full. To me it seems obvious that BTRFS will not break the RAID-1
>> redundancy guarentee unless a drive fails.
>
> So (assuming 1GB chunksize):
>
> if i create a raid-1, btrfs with a 3GB and a 7GB device, it will show me ~10GB free space,
> after saving a 1GB file, i will have 8GB left (-1GB on each device)
> after saving another 1GB, i will have 6GB left (--- " ----)
> after saving another 1GB, it's "suddenly" full?

you have still 4GB free of non RAID-1 (single) space, which is
currently unavailable, but it is planned that BTRFS will support mixed
storage:
some files can be RAID-1, some files can be RAID-0 and rest is basic
(single) storage

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