Hi Giovanni,
Giovanni Biscuolo <[email protected]> writes: [...] >>> Assuming I'm going to format the root filesystem as: >>> >>> mkfs.btrfs -m raid1 -d raid1 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 >>> >>> how should I configure (file-system...)? this way: >>> >>> (file-system >>> (mount-point "/") >>> (type "btrfs") >>> (device (uuid "4dab5feb-d176-45de-b287-9b0a6e4c01cb"))) >>> >>> with UUID taken from "lsblk -f"? >> >> That should work. > > I confirm it worked, easily! :-) Good to know :). [...] >> One thing you should note is that guix might generate incorrect >> paths for grub if you are using subvolumes. At least guix < 1.0 does >> that for me, haven't tested 1.0+ yet. But I have been using a shell >> script that works around that issue. > > I did not use root on a subvolume for my installation, but I'll try to > reproduce it in a test install: can you please file a bug report for > this, IMHO this should be fixed Looks like there is already a bug report on this: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=33517 And I just tested to reconfigure my system with guix v1.0.1 and the issue is still there. >>> From you experience is RAID on brtfs as solid as the one on mdadm? >> >> I have very little experience with mdadm, so can only speak of my >> experience with btrfs and RAID-1. Which I have been using for 3+ years. >> For me it has been solid. Only issue I have encountered was when my >> fileserver lost power a few times leaving the filesystem corrupt. A >> "btrfs check --repair" fixed that issue. > > Thanks for sharing! You give me courage to adopt btrfs more extensively > :-) Glad I could help out. -- s/Fred[re]+i[ck]+/Fredrik/g
