Re: Help me understand what is going on with my RAID1 FS

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Thanks everyone for the helpful and detailed responses.
Now that you confirmed that everything is fine with my FS, I'm all
relaxed because I can for sure live with the output of df.



On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 5:29 AM, Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 10.09.2017 23:17, Dmitrii Tcvetkov пишет:
>>>> Drive1      Drive2    Drive3
>>>> X           X
>>>> X                         X
>>>>             X             X
>>>>
>>>> Where X is a chunk of raid1 block group.
>>>
>>> But this table clearly shows that adding third drive increases free
>>> space by 50%. You need to reallocate data to actually make use of it,
>>> but it was done in this case.
>>
>> It increases it but I don't see how this space is in any way useful
>> unless data is in single profile. After full balance chunks will be
>> spread over 3 devices, how it helps in raid1 data profile case?
>>
> A1 A2  => A1 A2 - => A1 A2 B1 => A1 A2 B1
> B1 B2     B1 B2 -    -  B2  -    C1 B2 C2
>
> It is raid1 profile on three disks fully utilizing them (assuming equal
> sizes of course). Where "raid1" means - each data block has two copies
> on different devices.
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