Re: Removing a device from a metadata raid1 - data raid0

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On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 12:15:13AM +0200, Arnaud Kapp wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've setup a filesystem with 2 devices. The metadata are in raid1.
> Data is in raid0.
> 
> I wish to remove one of this device from the filesystem (to use for an
> unrelated purpose) but I am not able to do so.
> It *seems* that attempting to balance metadata to dup is not allowed
> (btrfs -mconvert=dup) because they currently are raid1.
> The metadata in raid1 prevents me from removing the device because the
> filesystem can't go below one device in raid1.
> 
> Could someone please advise me about my options here?

   The RAID-0 data is also going to be a problem here. You'll have to
convert that to single, because RAID-0 requires a minimum of two
devices.

   For the metadata, one approach is to convert to single, delete the
device, then convert to DUP. That at least will work, if be a little
risky.

   IMO, we should definitely support conversion to DUP, and prevent
the automatic "upgrade" to RAID-1, but I think we don't at the moment.

   Hugo.

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