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Author SHA1 Message Date
Qu Wenruo f04db96f61 btrfs-progs: docs: Add warning for build RAID btrfs on partions from the same device
Quite a common sense for any RAID-like multi-device setup, just in case.

Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2016-09-21 11:47:35 +02:00
Qu Wenruo 53c4e289c2 btrfs-progs: mkfs: Warn user for minimal RAID5/6 devices setup
For RAID5, 2 devices setup is just RAID1 with more overhead.
For RAID6, 3 devices setup is RAID1 with 3 copies, not what most user
want.

So warn user at mkfs time for such case, and add explain in man pages.

Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2016-09-21 11:47:31 +02:00
David Sterba 51d41fac76 btrfs-progs: docs: describe filesystem features
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2016-09-05 10:05:30 +02:00
David Sterba 21dc9050b5 btrfs-progs: docs: clarify why mkfs selects single for SSDs
The section raised some user questions on IRC.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2016-05-11 16:37:12 +02:00
David Sterba a5948c56bf btrfs-progs: docs: update mkfs page for dup on multidev fs
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2016-03-30 16:56:32 +02:00
Alexander Fougner 1086629272 btrfs-progs: docs: fix spelling errors
Signed-off-by: Alexander Fougner <fougner89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2016-03-14 13:44:17 +01:00
Tsutomu Itoh 060a55c331 btrfs-progs: doc: fix size suffix in mkfs.btrfs
There is no petabyte in the explanation of the suffix of
the size parameter. So, it's added.

Signed-off-by: Tsutomu Itoh <t-itoh@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2016-01-28 12:42:00 +01:00
Tsutomu Itoh 39ac3d16c1 btrfs-progs: doc: fix typo of some documents
Some typos are corrected.

Signed-off-by: Tsutomu Itoh <t-itoh@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2016-01-28 12:41:56 +01:00
David Sterba bbb0c589fc btrfs-progs: docs: mkfs, implications of DUP on devices
We offer DUP but still depend on the hardware, to do the right thing.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2016-01-04 11:28:12 +01:00
David Sterba 73a015578a btrfs-progs: docs: update raid table in mkfs manpage
* split copies to copies and parity and add a common header for all the
  raid options
* add missing RAID1
* n/a were dropped

Based on feedback from Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2015-11-24 18:26:47 +01:00
David Sterba a2d66e0962 btrfs-progs: docs: enhance manual page for mkfs
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2015-11-02 15:10:15 +01:00
Chandan Rajendra c11e36a29e Btrfs-progs: Do not force mixed block group creation unless '-M' option is specified
When creating small Btrfs filesystem instances (i.e. filesystem size <= 1GiB),
mkfs.btrfs fails if both sectorsize and nodesize are specified on the command
line and sectorsize != nodesize, since mixed block groups involves both data
and metadata blocks sharing the same block group. This is an incorrect behavior
when '-M' option isn't specified on the command line.

This commit makes optional the creation of mixed block groups i.e. Mixed block
groups are created only when -M option is specified on the command line.

Since we now allow small filesystem instances with sectorsize != nodesize to
be created, we can end up in the following situation,

[root@localhost ~]# mkfs.btrfs -f -n 65536 /dev/loop0
btrfs-progs v3.19-rc2-405-g976307c
See http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org for more information.

Performing full device TRIM (512.00MiB) ...
Label:              (null)
UUID:               49fab72e-0c8b-466b-a3ca-d1bfe56475f0
Node size:          65536
Sector size:        4096
Filesystem size:    512.00MiB
Block group profiles:
  Data:             single            8.00MiB
  Metadata:         DUP              40.00MiB
  System:           DUP              12.00MiB
SSD detected:       no
Incompat features:  extref, skinny-metadata
Number of devices:  1
Devices:
   ID        SIZE  PATH
    1   512.00MiB  /dev/loop0
[root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/
mount: mount /dev/loop0 on /mnt failed: No space left on device

The ENOSPC occurs during the creation of the UUID tree. This is because of
things like large metadata block size, DUP mode used for metadata and global
reservation consuming space. Also, large nodesize does not make sense on small
filesystems, hence this should not be an issue.

Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2015-11-02 09:35:04 +01:00
Adam Borowski ce63aed165 btrfs-progs: doc: mkfs.btrfs: document -O^
Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
2015-06-25 19:28:49 +02:00
David Sterba d34f9faf60 btrfs-progs: mkfs: add option to make it quiet
Add option to silecne mkfs and print only errors, warnings or info on
user request like features or help.

Based on patch from Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@inwind.it>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
2015-06-06 01:00:18 +02:00
David Sterba 7ffccaf0c3 btrfs-progs: Documentaion: rename to .asciidoc
A few minor benefits:

* editors set highliting according to the extensions
* web access to the git repository (github) renders the .asciidoc
  files:
  * we can link to them from the wiki
  * the files are editable via browser and such editations can be
    submitted for merge easily

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
2015-04-14 17:41:27 +02:00