Re: Excluding a device from storing snapshot data?

2011-02-16 Thread A. James Lewis
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 23:58 +0100, Bert Wesarg wrote: Hi all, I'm currently envision a backup setup for my laptop which has a SSD. I would like to use an external HDD und span a raid1 over these two devices and also creating snapshots. What I would like to prevent, is that these snapshots

Re: CRFS?

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Mason
Excerpts from Ken D'Ambrosio's message of 2011-02-15 12:35:47 -0500: Hey, all -- crfs (a network protocol that, I think, rides on top of btrfs) seemed like something kind of cool, but the Oracle page was last updated in '08. Is it truly dead, or just back-burnered? Unfortunately it's heavily

Re: Building btrfs as a dkms module on Debian

2011-02-16 Thread Yuri D'Elia
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:51:43 +0800 liubo liubo2...@cn.fujitsu.com wrote: I assume BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT/BARRIER was added in later kernels? Is there a way to make it build btrfs for 2.6.37? in commit fbd9b09a177a481eda256447c881f014f29034fe: include/linux/blkdev.h: #define BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT

combining 2 RAID 10 pools to one filesystem

2011-02-16 Thread Gal Buki
Hi I have RAID 10 using 4 times 500GB drives (1TB of storage). Is it possible to create another RAID 10 with 4 times 250GB drives (500GB of storage) and then combine those two RAIDs to one file system so that I would be able to get 1.5TB? If I create one RAID 10 with all 8 drives I would

Re: combining 2 RAID 10 pools to one filesystem

2011-02-16 Thread Hugo Mills
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:50:57PM +0200, Gal Buki wrote: I have RAID 10 using 4 times 500GB drives (1TB of storage). Is it possible to create another RAID 10 with 4 times 250GB drives (500GB of storage) and then combine those two RAIDs to one file system so that I would be able to get 1.5TB?

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Btrfs: Avoid accessing unmapped kernel address

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Mason
Excerpts from Li Zefan's message of 2011-02-16 01:06:41 -0500: When decompressing a chunk of data, we'll copy the data out to a working buffer if the data is stored in more than one page, otherwise we'll use the mapped page directly to avoid memory copy. In the latter case, we'll end up