Re: Balancing raid5 after adding another disk does not move/use any data on it

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On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 6:13 PM Jakub Husák <jakub@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Sorry, fighting with this technology called "email" :)
>
>
> Hopefully better wrapped outputs:
>
> On 13. 03. 19 22:58, Jakub Husák wrote:
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I added another disk to my 3-disk raid5 and ran a balance command.
> > After few hours I looked to output of `fi usage` to see that no data
> > are being used on the new disk. I got the same result even when
> > balancing my raid5 data or metadata.
> >

Am I correct in rephrasing your issue into "balancing 3 copy raid5
does not rebalance into 4 copy raid5"? Because that was a surprising
result to me, but may be a spec that I wasn't aware of.

> >
> # btrfs filesystem usage   /mnt/data1
>
> Data,RAID5: Size:4.59TiB, Used:4.06TiB
>     /dev/mapper/crypt-sdb       2.29TiB
>     /dev/mapper/crypt-sdc       2.29TiB
>     /dev/mapper/crypt-sde       2.29TiB
>
> Metadata,RAID1: Size:158.00GiB, Used:29.43GiB
>     /dev/mapper/crypt-sdb      53.00GiB
>     /dev/mapper/crypt-sdc      53.00GiB
>     /dev/mapper/crypt-sdd     158.00GiB
>     /dev/mapper/crypt-sde      52.00GiB




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