On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 21:16 +0200, Gal Buki wrote: > Hi > > I made a test RAID 10 with several old disks with various sizes. > I copied some files (~800MB) > When using btrfs fi df /mountpoint I get > Data: total=1.00GB, used=800.00MB > When I copy another ~800MB I get a total size of 2GB. > > This goes on and on until I hit the max size of the RAID. > e.g. > Data: total=5.00GB, used=4.97GB > > Is there a way to see what the max size will be without having to fill > the RAID first?
As I understand it: the simple answer is, unfortunately, “no”. Because metadata and data chunks are allocated on demand depending on how you use the space, the best you could do would be to make a guess based on current allocation ratios. That is something which is pretty hard to do manually though— particularly in the case of differently-sized disks—so some sort of estimation tool could be useful. (But it would be just that: an estimate, not an exact count.) This will get worse once btrfs supports having data with different raid levels on the same filesystem, because you’ll have different amounts of “available” space depending on which raid type the data in question is stored with. -- Calvin Walton <calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
