This updates mkfs.btrfs's man page with the new limitation that nodesize must
be a power of 2 as well.
Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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>
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>
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>
* 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>
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>
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>
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>
