On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:13:11AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> Commit 2f0810880f082fa8ba66ab2c33b02e4ff9770a5e changed
> btrfs_set_block_group_ro to avoid trying to allocate new chunks with the
> new raid profile during conversion.  This fixed failures when there was
> no space on the drive to allocate a new chunk, but the metadata
> reserves were sufficient to continue the conversion.
> 
> But this ended up causing a regression when the drive had plenty of
> space to allocate new chunks, mostly because reduce_alloc_profile isn't
> using the new raid profile.
> 
> Fixing btrfs_reduce_alloc_profile is a bigger patch.  For now, do a
> partial revert of 2f0810880, and don't error out if we hit ENOSPC.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <[email protected]>
> ---
>  fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
> index 45e3f08..a115599 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
> @@ -8829,6 +8829,26 @@ again:
>               goto again;
>       }
>  
> +     /*
> +      * if we are changing raid levels, try to allocate a corresponding
> +      * block group with the new raid level.
> +      */
> +     if (!(cache->flags & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_SYSTEM)) {

This prevents to switch the system chunk in all cases. What was the
reason to do it?

If I remove the check, then the conversions work in all combinations.
Eg.

* convert from ext (or use any single device fs)
* add second device
* balance data/metadata/system to raid1
* all fine
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