Raid root filesystem?

2011-07-08 Thread Evert Vorster
Hi there... A year ago a btrfs raid needs to be scanned before it can be mounted. Is this still the case? I would like to have a btrfs raid as root, but so far this was not possible due to the scanning thing, and thus I still need a /boot filesystem. It would be awesome to be able to just boot

Rename a btrfs filesystem?

2011-04-29 Thread Evert Vorster
Hi there. Just a quick question: How do I rename an existing btrfs filesystem without destroying all the subvolumes on it? From mkfs.btrfs it says -L sets the initial filesystem label. With ext2, 3 and 4 the filesystem label can be changed with tune2fs. Does similar functionality exist in

Re: cloning single-device btrfs file system onto multi-device one

2011-04-05 Thread Evert Vorster
Hi there. From my limited understanding, btrfs will write metadata in raid1 by default. So, this could be where your 2TB has gone. I am assuming you used raid0 for the three new disks? Also, hard-stopping a btrfs is a no-no... Kind regards, -Evert- On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Stephane

Re: 800 GByte free, but no space left

2010-12-05 Thread Evert Vorster
of space would probably be 0.6Tb partitions.ie: 3x0.6Tb partitions on the first disk, and 2x0.6TB partitions on the second. Then add all five partitions to a btrfs raid. This would leave 0.1Tb of wasted space on the smaller device, but at least you can use this partition separately. Kind regards, -Evert

Re: 800 GByte free, but no space left

2010-12-05 Thread Evert Vorster
. Unfortunately, I'm no good at coding so the best I can do is test and report results... :( -Evert Vorster- -- 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

unmountable filesystem...

2010-11-27 Thread Evert Vorster
not repair the drive. Is there any way of getting any of the information off of this disk? -Evert Vorster- This is on kernel 2.6.36.1, by the way. -- http://magnatune.com - Music shared the way it should be. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body

tiny btrfs bug.....

2010-11-18 Thread Evert Vorster
Hi there. I'm running my root on a raid1 btrfs partition stretching over two partitions on two separate disks. Each partition is 30GB, so I would expect the raid to be 30GB big, being a mirror and all. In stead, df reports the size of the partition to be about 60GB. For each GB written to the

Fwd: 2.6.36-rc1 btrfs still unstable

2010-08-16 Thread Evert Vorster
I thought this would go to the list automatically. Here it is now. -- Forwarded message -- From: Evert Vorster evors...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:04 PM Subject: Re: 2.6.36-rc1 btrfs still unstable To: Chris Ball c...@laptop.org I lost a btrfs not long ago

Fwd: btrfsck: checksum verify failed

2010-08-08 Thread Evert Vorster
-- Forwarded message -- From: Evert Vorster evors...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 1:18 PM Subject: btrfsck: checksum verify failed To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Hi there. I have a btrfs on a raw device. (/dev/sda insted of in a partition, like /dev/sda1 ) The device

quick question...

2010-08-08 Thread Evert Vorster
Hi there. Has anybody got a btrfs root filesystem that is running on a bare block device? Would lilo be able to boot an initramfs that is living on such a filesystem? What I intend to do is to erase all the partitions off my system, make a btrfs volume on /dev/sda, and then just use subvolumes