On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Hugo Mills <hugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Why not just create the filesystem as RAID-1 in the first place? > > # mkfs.btrfs -d raid1 -m raid1 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 As I said, I've only got two working drives large enough at present. > Then you can restore from your backups. You do have backups, right? > (Remember, this is a filesystem still marked as "experimental"). Yes, I know. :) I just have remote backups, though, so while I could go with those I'd prefer to avoid a long download or shipping a drive. > Yes, balances are not interruptible right now. The restriper > patches (in 3.3-rc1) will allow you to monitor balance progress and > stop/restart them. They will also allow you to change RAID levels on > the fly, which is what you were asking for in the first place. Perfect. Since I do have the backup, maybe I'll just wait for that. Worst case, if I am unlucky enough to find a bad bug, I'll resort to restoring from the backup. :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
