Re: Failed RAID0=> RAID1 Conversion

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On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:30:23PM +0100, Filipe David Manana wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Hugo Mills <hugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:59:48PM +0200, Torbjørn wrote:
> >> On 13. mai 2015 12:47, David Alcorn wrote:
> >> >I run Debian Jessie with a kernel upgrade to 4.0.0 from the Debian
> >> >experimental repository.  My BTRFS-Tools remain at 3.17.-1  I wanted
> >> >to convert a RAID0 array on /dev/sdb3 and /dev sdc3  from RAID0  to
> >> >RAID1 so I ran the commands:
> >> >
> >> >     mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt
> >> >     btrfs device add -f /dev/sdc3 /mnt
> >> >     btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid1 -mconvert=raid1 /mnt
> >> >
> >> >All appeared well with output similar to "395 of 395 chunks converted"
> >> >but I think nothing happened.  The array contains a subvolume @export
> >> >with size (per "du -sh @export") of  442G.  The pertinent output from
> >> >"btrfs filesystem show" reports:
> >> >
> >> >     Label: none  uuid: 647eb0f8-7732-40bc-a4a4-0d1b31a8ae16
> >> >             Total devices 2 FS bytes used 443.05GiB
> >> >             devid    1 size 1.36TiB used 223.03GiB path /dev/sdb3
> >> >             devid    2 size 1.36TiB used 223.03GiB path /dev/sdc3
> >> >
> >> >My array remains RAID0 if I understand the above output correctly.
> >> >This output persist through a reboot and no data was lost.  Where did
> >> >I err?
> >>
> >> For info about raid levels, use "btrfs filesystem df <mount point>"
> >> It should give you something like this:
> >> Data, RAID1: total=12.97GiB, used=12.28GiB
> >> System, RAID1: total=32.00MiB, used=16.00KiB
> >> Metadata, RAID1: total=1.00GiB, used=334.53MiB
> >> GlobalReserve, single: total=112.00MiB, used=0.00B
> >
> >    If this still says RAID0, then you've probably hit a known (and
> > since fixed) bug that stops restripe operations from working:
> 
> As far as I can see, it hasn't been fixed as of 4.1-rc3 yet, nor any
> patch to fix it was posted to this list yet (other than Omar's revert
> patch).

   Ah, OK, I stand corrected. I thought it had been fixed, but I was
probably remembering Omar's revert patch.

   Hugo.

> > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs%40vger.kernel.org/msg43313.html
> >
> >    Hugo.
> >

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