Re: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: check metadata redundancy

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On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 05:03:31PM +0100, sam tygier wrote:
> Currently BTRFS allows you to make bad choices of data and 
> metadata levels. For example -d raid1 -m raid0 means you can
> only use half your total disk space, but will loose everything
> if 1 disk fails. This patch prevents you creating the situation
> another will be need to prevent rebalancing in to it. 
> 
> When making a filesystem check that metadata mode is at least
> as redundant as the data mode. For example don't allow:
> 	-d raid1 -m raid0

This is enforcing some policty that makes sense for some usecases, but I
think that the tool should be flexible enough to create any kind of raid
profiles. It's up to the user. I'm willing to add a warning that the
profiles seem fishy, but failing mkfs without any way to override that
is IMHO not a good thing.
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