Balance scrub defrag

2014-12-10 Thread sys.syphus
I am working on a script that i can run daily that will do maintenance on my btrfs mountpoints. is there any reason not to concurrently do all of the above? possibly including discards as well. also, is there anything existing currently that will do maintenance on btrfs so i don't have to

out of space warning?

2014-12-10 Thread sys.syphus
I would like to avoid running out of space. is there a way to know that I am getting close? i'd like to make a script that runs as part of my bash prompt and lets me know when i am getting close. i know there are several ways you can run out of space and I'd like to avoid all of them. -- To

btrfs fi df output unknown

2014-12-12 Thread sys.syphus
why would there be unknown data below? i have 2 btrfs arrays and both have this going on. neither are active. any idea why and how to make it go away? Btrfs v3.12 btrfs fi df /media/btrfs Data, RAID1: total=314.00GiB, used=313.55GiB System, RAID1: total=32.00MiB, used=64.00KiB Metadata, RAID1:

I need to P. are we almost there yet?

2014-12-29 Thread sys.syphus
specifically (P)arity. very specifically n+2. when will raid5 raid6 be at least as safe to run as raid1 currently is? I don't like the idea of being 2 bad drives away from total catastrophe. (and yes i backup, it just wouldn't be fun to go down that route.) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: I need to P. are we almost there yet?

2014-12-29 Thread sys.syphus
oh, and sorry to bump myself. but is raid10 *ever* more redundant in btrfs-speak than raid1? I currently use raid1 but i know in mdadm speak raid10 means you can lose 2 drives assuming they aren't the wrong ones, is it safe to say with btrfs / raid 10 you can only lose one no matter what? -- To

Re: I need to P. are we almost there yet?

2014-12-29 Thread sys.syphus
so am I to read that as if btrfs redundancy isn't really functional? if i yank a member of my raid 1 out in live prod is it going to take a dump on my data? On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 01:00:05PM -0600, sys.syphus wrote: oh

Re: I need to P. are we almost there yet?

2015-01-03 Thread sys.syphus
But btrfs raid56 mode should be complete with kernel 3.19 and presumably btrfs-progs 3.19 tho I'd give it a kernel or two to mature to be sure. N-way-mirroring (my particular hotly awaited feature) is next up, but given the time raid56 took, I don't think anybody's predicting when it'll be

Re: I need to P. are we almost there yet?

2015-01-03 Thread sys.syphus
Which is really not bad, considering the chance that something gets corrupt. Already it is an exceedingly rare event. Detection without correction can be more than enough. Since always things have worked in the computer science field without even the detection feature. Most likely even your

Re: Balance is inexplicably dieing (repeatedly)

2015-01-05 Thread sys.syphus
, sys.syphus wrote: I start it. I check it and its like 2% done Several hours its stopped and the re-balance clearly didn't finish because I can see one member of the array has a fraction of the usage of the others. Dmesg shows no errors. Thoughts? should start it again in the foreground with verbosity

Balance is inexplicably dieing (repeatedly)

2015-01-05 Thread sys.syphus
I start it. I check it and its like 2% done Several hours its stopped and the re-balance clearly didn't finish because I can see one member of the array has a fraction of the usage of the others. Dmesg shows no errors. Thoughts? should start it again in the foreground with verbosity or something?