Re: UI issues around RAID1

2009-11-18 Thread Roland Dreier
- Unless I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be any way later on to see that I set the data policy to raid1, except using btrfs-dump-tree and checking the flags bits for the appropriate group. Which can make things confusing if I have a bunch of btrfs

Re: UI issues around RAID1

2009-11-18 Thread Roland Dreier
Yeah df is just a fun ball of wax in many respects. We don't take into account RAID and we don't subtrace space thats strictly for metadata, so there are several things that need to be fixed for df. Thanks, But as we have said many times... if we have different raid types

UI issues around RAID1

2009-11-16 Thread Roland Dreier
I've just started playing around with btrfs RAID1, and I've noticed a couple of what seem to be UI issues. Suppose I do something like mkfs.btrfs -d raid1 -m raid1 dev1 dev2. I see the following minor usability problems: - Unless I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be any way later

Re: Btrfs for mainline

2009-01-02 Thread Roland Dreier
I don't disagree, please do keep in mind that I'm not suggesting anyone use this in production yet. When it's in mainline I suspect people will start using it for that. I think the larger question here is where we want development to happen. I'm definitely not pretending that