Re: Preparing single-disk setup for future multi-disk usage

2012-05-24 Thread Calvin Walton
On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 08:05 +0200, Björn Wüst wrote: > Good morning, > > > I currently have a single-disk setup where I want to use btrfs > filesystem. Yet, I expect to add additional disks to this system in > the future. Those disks shall be visible to the OS like a single disk, > i.e. using mul

RE: Preparing single-disk setup for future multi-disk usage

2012-05-24 Thread Bjoern Wuest
Hi Hugo, Thank you very much for the information. Regards Bjoern -Original Message- From: Hugo Mills [mailto:h...@carfax.org.uk] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:41 AM To: Björn Wüst Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Preparing single-disk setup for future multi-disk

Re: Preparing single-disk setup for future multi-disk usage

2012-05-24 Thread Hugo Mills
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 08:05:23AM +0200, Björn Wüst wrote: > Good morning, > > > I currently have a single-disk setup where I want to use btrfs filesystem. > Yet, I expect to add additional disks to this system in the future. Those > disks shall be visible to the OS like a single disk, i.e. us

Re: Preparing single-disk setup for future multi-disk usage

2012-05-23 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Björn Wüst wrote: > > Unfortunately, I do not have a disk to test it right now. The disk I am > planning to use is with the post service still :) . you can use sparse files. Possibly with losetup, if necessary. > Thank you for your replies to this email (bjoern.

Preparing single-disk setup for future multi-disk usage

2012-05-23 Thread Björn Wüst
Good morning, I currently have a single-disk setup where I want to use btrfs filesystem. Yet, I expect to add additional disks to this system in the future. Those disks shall be visible to the OS like a single disk, i.e. using multi-disk feature in btrfs. While data shall be striped among thos