btrfs-procs: docs: add warning about balance to replace failing device
Since balance is copying the old good data/metadata into a new chunk (which can be on the same failed device), it's not a safe way to handle failed devices. Signed-off-by: Colin Snover <csnover@users.noreply.github.com> [ Add an SoB and simple commit message, remove the unnecessary explanation, and guide the user to use `btrfs dev replace` ] Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
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@ -116,3 +116,13 @@ In order to remove a device, you need to convert the profile in this case:
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$ btrfs balance start -mconvert=dup -dconvert=single /mnt
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$ btrfs device remove /dev/sda /mnt
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.. warning::
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Do not run balance to convert from a profile with more redundancy to one with
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less redundancy in order to remove a failing device from a filesystem.
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Balance is done by reading out the good metadata/data and write them into into a
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new chunk.
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Thus it's possible the new chunk is written into the failing device.
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Use `btrfs device replace` instead.
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