On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:06:24 +0200 Swâmi Petaramesh <swami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I've created a "small" BTRFS filesystem, where metadata+data are mixed > (and metadata are not DUP'ed). > > Then I've enlarged the FS to 1 GB ; now I'd like to make it "normal" > with separate data and metadata, and "DUP'ed" metadata. Considering the metadata overallocation bug [1] is still not fixed even in the latest kernels and no one seems to care all that much, I would not recommend doing that. Personally I now use a "mixed" filesystem on a 1TB disk without any problems, and do not think there's anything wrong with "mixed". In fact there's been some talk of moving to the mixed mode allocation to be used by default, and maybe even removing support for the "split" mode: see [2]. [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/17848 [2] http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-btrfs/2010/10/29/6885925 -- With respect, Roman ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Stallman had a printer, with code he could not see. So he began to tinker, and set the software free."
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