On Mar 12, 2014, at 7:22 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:

> I think you've stumbled into a bug. Since Btrfs directly supports multiple 
> devices, it's like LVM or raid in this respect, and for LVM and RAID, 
> anaconda might be eager to configure multiple device layouts this way.
> 
> So I'm going to bet dollars to donuts this is a Btrfs raid0 volume. 

I just tried this with Rawhide, and it is rather easy to create a multiple 
device Btrfs volume and maybe not realize it. The resulting volume uses data 
profile single, metadata profile raid1. This can be confirmed with:

btrfs fi df /

Data profile single allocations in 1GB chunks to the block device (partition) 
with the most free space. When free space remaining among all devices is the 
same, it round robin allocates in 1GB increments. The metadata being raid1 
means both SSD and HDD have a copy of the file system.

The way data profile single works is it allocates in 1GB chunks to the block 
device (partition) that has the most free space, until both have the same free 
space remaining, and then it alternates between them in 1GB chunks. The 
metadata however is raid1, so the SSD and the hard drive each have a copy of 
the file system.

So if yours is configured this way, it's probably not critical to change it. 
The metadata going to the SSD isn't much, and since the HDD has much more space 
probably all data chunks are allocated on it for the near/medium term. But 
conversion to single device Btrfs is straightforward, three btrfs commands will 
do it. And then some extras to reclaim the space on the SSD for /var or / or 
whatever.


Chris Murphy

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