Re: Recovery advice

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Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@xxxxxxx> schrieb:

>> It is a RAID-1 so why bother with the faulty drive? Just wipe it, put it
>> back in, then run a btrfs balance... There should be no data loss
>> because all data is stored twice (two-way mirroring).
> 
> The caveat would be if it didn't start as btrfs raid1, and there's still
> some data (or possibly metadata if it was the single drive at one point
> or they're ssds, as btrfs defaults to metadata single in ssd mode) that
> hasn't been duped elsewhere.

Oh... That's actually a pitfall... :-\

Note to myself: Ensure balance has been run successfully and completely.

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