On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 03:24:00PM +0100, Helmut Hullen wrote: > Hallo, Hugo, > > Du meintest am 17.03.12: > > >> What's the 'solution' though to Hugo's situation? > >> By 'solution' I mean the highest-utility way of dealing with unequal > >> devices problem in a two or more -up setting. > > > Use mkfs.btrfs -d single, as I said in another part of this > > thread. > > Does "single" allow adding new (bigger) disks and removing old (smaller) > disks? Yes. "single" is effectively "RAID linear" -- just adding the disks together, effectively linearly(*). It's called "single" because it's single (i.e. no) redundancy. Hugo. (*) actually the allocator will kind of "stripe" the data in 1GiB-wide stripes, but that's incidental really. -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- A diverse working environment: Di longer you vork here, di --- verse it gets.
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