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Rich Freeman <rich0 <at> gentoo.org> writes: |
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> Sure, if there is interest I can put together something once I'm back home. |
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I'm sure there is an interest in Raid 1 with btrfs on gentoo. If at all |
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possible, I think avoiding mdadm and lvm are advisable to simplify the |
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install and put the focus of the gentoo community learning the ins and out |
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of btrfs; if possile. Any guide would be an excellent starting point |
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on allowing many gentoo users to benefit from btrfs. A simple partition |
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scheme to start with would keep the guide shorter. |
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If you put this together, single disk, here is a web pages that states that |
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it is pretty much straightforward to convert to a dual disk raid-1 config:: |
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Conversion " |
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A non-raid filesystem is converted to raid by adding a device and running a |
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balance filter that will change the chunk allocation profile. |
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For example, to convert an existing single device system (/dev/sdb1) into a |
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2 device raid1 (to protect against a single disk failure): |
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mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt |
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btrfs device add /dev/sdc1 /mnt |
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btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid1 -mconvert=raid1 /mnt " |
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James |
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[1] |
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https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/ |
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index.phpUsing_Btrfs_with_Multiple_Devices#Registration_in_.2Fetc.2Ffstab |
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