On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> Robert White posted on Wed, 10 Dec 2014 02:53:40 -0800 as excerpted:
>
>> On 12/09/2014 05:08 PM, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
>>> On 12/10/2014 02:47 AM, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
>>>> Hi Dongsheng On 12/09/2014 12:20 PM, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
>>>>> When function btrfs_statfs() calculate the tatol size of fs, it is
>>>>> calculating the total size of disks and then dividing it by a factor.
>>>>> But in some usecase, the result is not good to user.
>>>>>
>>>>> Example:
>>>>>     # mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/vdf1 /dev/vdf2 -d raid1
>>>>>     # mount /dev/vdf1 /mnt
>>>>>     # dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/zero bs=1M count=1000
>>>>>     # df -h /mnt
>>>>> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>>>> /dev/vdf1       3.0G 1018M  1.3G  45% /mnt
>>>>>
>>>>>     # btrfs fi show /dev/vdf1
>>>>> Label: none  uuid: f85d93dc-81f4-445d-91e5-6a5cd9563294
>>>>>     Total devices 2 FS bytes used 1001.53MiB
>>>>>     devid    1 size 2.00GiB  used 1.85GiB path /dev/vdf1
>>>>>     devid    2 size 4.00GiB  used 1.83GiB path /dev/vdf2
>>>>>
>>>>> a. df -h should report Size as 2GiB rather than as 3GiB.
>>>>> Because this is 2 device raid1, the limiting factor is devid 1 @2GiB.
>>>> I agree
>>
>> NOPE.
>>
>> The model you propose is too simple.
>>
>> While the data portion of the file system is set to RAID1 the metadata
>> portion of the filesystem is still set to the default of DUP.
>
> Metadata defaults to DUP only on a single-device filesystem.  On a multi-
> device filesystem, metadata defaults to raid1.  (FWIW, for both, data
> defaults to single.)

Exactly. Thanx for your clarification. :)
>
> And in the example, the mkfs was supplied with two devices, so there's no
> dup metadata remaining from a formerly single-device filesystem, either.
> (Tho there will be the small single-mode stubs, empty, remaining from the
> mkfs process, as no balance has been run to delete them yet, but those
> are much smaller and empty.)

Yes. One question not related here: how about delete them in the end of mkfs?

Thanx
>
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