Hello everyone,
btrfs look quit interesting, so i decided to create a raid10 with btrfs. The kernel website of brtfs tells me to use this command to create a raid10.
terran@gaia ~ $ **mkfs.btrfs -m raid10 -d raid10 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde**
Btrfs v3.17
See http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org for more information.
Turning ON incompat feature 'extref': increased hardlink limit per file to 65536
adding device /dev/sdd id 2
adding device /dev/sde id 3
adding device /dev/sdf id 4
fs created label (null) on /dev/sdc
nodesize 16384 leafsize 16384 sectorsize 4096 size **3.64TiB**
Wait a moment, 3.64TiB with 41TB devices and raid10?
Ok, perhaps i nee to run this command as suggested by various sites from the internet.
terran@gaia ~ $ **btrfs device scan**
Scanning for Btrfs filesystems
Again the same result.
terran@gaia ~ $ **btrfs filesystem show**
Label: none uuid: 6c49b66e-1700-4ed8-8555-972375e3be3c
Total devices 4 FS bytes used 112.00KiB
devid 1 size 931.51GiB used **2.03GiB** path /dev/sdc
devid 2 size 931.51GiB used **2.01GiB** path /dev/sdd
devid 3 size 931.51GiB used **2.01GiB** path /dev/sde
devid 4 size 931.51GiB used **2.01GiB** path /dev/sdf
// removed unnecessary output //
Btrfs v3.17
Ok i am out, how is it possible to have 4TB raid10 with 4 1TB devices? What did i miss? Bug/Feature-Theorem?
THX in advance.
I tried to learn from what you post, but there is one thing I can not understand.
You try to create your file system with a statement that mentions /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, /dev/sdd and /dev/sde. Then the tool tells you that it is doing things with /dev/sdd, /dev/sde, /dev/sdf and /dev/sdc.
What seems strange (when not dangerous) to me is that something is happening to /dev/sdf where we are not even sure that it exists, and when it exists, what it is used for.
Filesystem size is 4TB. raid level simply changes how data is written to a filesystem. You can have different “raid levels” for metadata and user data.
@arvidjaar[Solution] Ok, so the filesystem is 4TB but btrfs handles the way how data is written to the fs. If so… If I write a 1000MB file I only have 3.8TB left because its raid10.**** Tested and yes that was the missing point. THX. BTRFS is a nice little fs.**
** @gogalthrop I thought the problems are in raid5 and raid56 or something so I guessed raid1 and raid0 should work and so raid10…
I hope i didnt miss something else, thx for the help, is it possible to mark this as [solved] if its common in this forum?
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