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Hey folks, Does anybody know if any of these are on the roadmap for ZFS, or have any idea how long it''s likely to be before we see them (we''re in no rush - late 2008 would be fine with us, but it would be nice to know they''re being worked on)? I''ve seen many people ask for the ability to expand a raid-z pool by adding devices. I''m wondering if it

Hello, This patch series adds an initial implementation of restriper (it''s a clever name for relocation framework that allows to do selective profile changing and selective balancing with some goodies like pausing/resuming and reporting progress to the user. Profile changing is global (per-FS) so far, per-subvolume profiles require some discussion and can be implemented in future.

Hello, Just a couple questions regarding RAID. Here's thesituation. I bought a 4TB drive before I upgraded from 6.8 to 7.3. I'm not too far into this that Ican't start over. I wanted disk space to backup 3 other machines. I way overestimated what I needed for full, incremental and image backups with UrBackup.I've used less than 1TB so far. I would like to add an additional drive

Hello, This is the userspace part of restriper, rebased onto the new progs infrastructure. Restriper commands are located under ''balance'' prefix, which is now the top level command group. However to not confuse existing users ''balance'' prefix is also available under ''filesystem'': btrfs [filesystem] balance start btrfs [filesystem] balance

On 2017-02-15, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 2/14/2017 4:48 PM, tdukes at palmettoshopper.com wrote: > >> 3 - Can additional drive(s) be added later with a changein RAID level >> without current data loss? > > Only some systems support that sort of restriping, and its a dangerous > activity (if the power fails or system crashes midway through

On 2/14/2017 4:48 PM, tdukes at palmettoshopper.com wrote: > 1- Better to go with a hardware RAID (mainboardsupported) or software? I would only use hardware raid if its a card with battery (or supercap+flash) backed writeback cache, such as a megaraid, areca, etc. otherwise I would use mdraid mirroring. > 2 - Can an existing drive with data on it be used as aRAID drive without >

On 2/16/2017 9:18 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2017-02-15, John R Pierce<pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: >> On 2/14/2017 4:48 PM,tdukes at palmettoshopper.com wrote: >> >>> 3 - Can additional drive(s) be added later with a changein RAID level >>> without current data loss? >> Only some systems support that sort of restriping, and its a dangerous

All - I''ve put together a new integration branch based on Chris''s new master. This includes the userspace patches for qgroups, restriper, and Josef''s restore utility, plus a bunch of other things with mostly minor impact. The shortlog is attached at the end of this email. As always, it''s available from:

On 14/02/17 07:58 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/14/2017 4:48 PM, tdukes at palmettoshopper.com wrote: >> 1- Better to go with a hardware RAID (mainboardsupported) or software? > > I would only use hardware raid if its a card with battery (or > supercap+flash) backed writeback cache, such as a megaraid, areca, etc. > otherwise I would use mdraid mirroring. > >

Greetings, until yesterday I was running a btrfs filesystem across two 2.0 TiB disks in RAID1 mode for both metadata and data without any problems. As space was getting short I wanted to extend the filesystem by two additional drives lying around, which both are 1.0 TiB in size. Knowing little about the btrfs RAID implementation I thought I had to switch to RAID10 mode, which I was told is

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:25 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > disks -> partition(s) -> mdraid devices -> PVs -> VG -> LV -> file system. > phew. You might be a candidate for LVM integrated raid. It uses the md kernel code on the backend, but it's all LVM tools to create, manage and monitor. The raid level is defined per LV, instead of all

Greetings, I have a few questions pertaining to BTRFS RAID. I know it''s been rumored a lot recently that kernel 3.4 will have RAID5/6 support, is this still the case. Also, is it possible to change from a single drive system to a raid system or even a multi drive system without raid to a raid system while there is data on the drives an successfully convert them without loosing data?

On 4/13/11, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at softdux.com> wrote: >> to expand the array :) > > I haven't had problems doing it this way yet. I finally figured out my mistake creating the raid devices and got a working RAID 0 on two RAID 1 arrays. But I wasn't able to add another RAID 1 component to the array with the error mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/md/mdr1_3 as 2:

On 2/18/2015 8:20 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Niki Kovacs<info at microlinux.fr> wrote: >> >Le 18/02/2015 23:12, Chris Murphy a ?crit : >>> >> >>> >>"installer is organized around mount points" is correct, and what gets >>> >>mounted on mount points? Volumes, not partitions. >> >

I ran into a problem that I couldn't resolve straight away, but would like to solve for sometime in the future. We have a Thecus storage server (similar to a Buffalo TeraByte, if that helps?) that has a Mac filesystem on it. The mother board was failing, but the drives are still OK. A new box has been added, so the urgency is sort of gone. I was going to try and back up the data to a new

What happened to the hot data tracking feature in btrfs? There are a lot of old patches from aug 2010, but it looks like the feature has been completly removed from the current version of btrfs. Is this feature still on the roadmap?

I was recently evaluating much the same question but with out only a single pool and sizing my disks equally. I only need about 500GB of usable space and so I was considering the value of 4x 250GB SATA Drives versus 5x 160GB SATA drives. I had intended to use an AMS 5 disk in 3 5.25" bay hot-swap backplane. http://www.american-media.com/product/backplane/sata300/sata300.html I priced

I'm setting up this huge RAID 6 box. I've always thought of hot spares, but I'm reading things that are comparing RAID 5 with a hot spare to RAID 6, implying that the latter doesn't need one. I *certainly* have enough drives to spare in this RAID box: 42 of 'em, so two questions: should I assign one or more hot spares, and, if so, how many? mark

Hi, I wanted to add a disk to the tank pool to create a mirror. I accidentally used zpool add ? instead of zpool attach ? and now the disk is added. Is there a way to remove the disk without loosing data? Or maybe change it to mirror? Thanks, Martijn -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

I currently have a 7x1.5tb raidz1. I want to add "phase 2" which is another 7x1.5tb raidz1 Can I add the second phase to the first phase and basically have two raid5''s striped (in raid terms?) Yes, I probably should upgrade the zpool format too. Currently running snv_104. Also should upgrade to 110. If that is possible, would anyone happen to have the simple command lines to