On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Holger Hoffstätte <holger.hoffstaette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That's why I mentioned adding a second device - that will immediately > allow cleanup with headroom. An additional 8GB tmpfs volume can works > wonders. > If you add a single 8GB tmpfs to a RAID1 btrfs array, is it safe to assume that you'll still always have a redundant copy of everything on a disk somewhere during the recovery? Would only a single tmpfs volume actually help in this case? I get a bit nervous about doing a cleanup that involves moving metadata to tmpfs of all places, since some kind of deadlock/etc could result in unrecoverable data loss. Doing the same thing with an actual hard drive would concern me less. -- Rich -- 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
