ksignorini Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 What does "No balance found on /mnt/cache" mean in regards to having just added a 2nd SSD to my cache pool? (Was just one SSD until now.) When I added it and looked at the original, it was saying that balance was running and was showing some data in the balance info box. Now it just says "No balance found on /mnt/cache". Is that normal? Do I need to manually run the balance? If not, then why/when do you manually hit that button? Thanks! Quote Link to comment
ksignorini Posted February 7, 2017 Author Share Posted February 7, 2017 Also does this look right? Should the 2nd cache drive not show a FS format, size, or anything? (If this is correct, the screen is misleading and could give better information--like put the word "pooled" or something in each field showing that it's not just empty.) Quote Link to comment
John_M Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Both are quite normal, though, as you say, a little confusing. You can run the balance manually (e.g. to change the RAID level). Quote Link to comment
Kevek79 Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 Hello, I'm pulling up this old thread because I have a simillar issue and would like to ask for some help in determining if everything is configured and behaving as it should. I upgraded my 500 GB M.2. Cahce Drive with a second one (also 500 GB) to get some redundancy in the cache. Everything looked OK from my perspective after installing the second drive and it started the automatic balancing and creation of an RAID1. As the cache was getting full and I had a spare 1TB Samsung EVO SATA SSD laying around, I installed it into my server and added it as a third drive in the cache pool. After Unraid did its balancing magic, in dashboard everything was looking OK and I had the expected total size of 1TB Cachepool. But Here comes the question. When inspecting the "btrfs filesystem df" - field in the GUI it is reporting RAID1 for Data but only shows around 500 GB in size. Furthermore the metadata seams to be in single mode. Looking at the pictures from 'ksignorini' metadata is also in RAID1 what I would expect to be correct. Do I need to run a manual balance to assure data and metadata protection or should I leave it as is? Thanks in advance for any input from someone who knows more than me about cache drives Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 6 minutes ago, Kevek79 said: Do I need to run a manual balance to assure data and metadata protection or should I leave it as is? Run a balance, only for the metadata: btrfs balance start -mconvert=raid1 /mnt/cache Quote Link to comment
Kevek79 Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 Thanks @johnnie.black Will do and report result when I am back home in front of my server Quote Link to comment
Kevek79 Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 On 7/3/2019 at 11:41 AM, johnnie.black said: Run a balance, only for the metadata: btrfs balance start -mconvert=raid1 /mnt/cache My btrfs filesystem df now reports this: Data, RAID1: total=410.00GiB, used=393.46GiB System, RAID1: total=32.00MiB, used=96.00KiB Metadata, RAID1: total=1.00GiB, used=405.33MiB GlobalReserve, single: total=116.19MiB, used=0.00B So everything is in RAID 1 now. Thanks It only shows 410 GiB Data, but the Pool has 1TB Size. Is this just a bug in displaying the total size, because on dashboard it shows the 1TB as expected, or should I be worried ? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 Btrfs uses chunks which are pre-allocated, 410Gib is just the current allocated space for data chunks, GUI will report the correct total, used and free space. Quote Link to comment
Kevek79 Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 Thanks Johnnie for the clarification. Quote Link to comment
Wayne66 Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 (edited) I'm jumping on this post as my situation is similar. Do I have an issue here? The status shows 'No balance found'. I have a cache and cache2 drive, both 1TB SSDs. It appears to be working, but I saw this and wondered if I shouldn't take action. Just wonder if I should click the 'Balance' button? tower-diagnostics-20201015-1827.zip Edited October 15, 2020 by Wayne66 Failed to mention configuration, added diagnostics Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 8 hours ago, Wayne66 said: The status shows 'No balance found'. That's what it will show unless you're running a balance, it's the normal status. 1 Quote Link to comment
Fuggin Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Hello...I had made some cache pool changes and wanted to make the entire cache pool RAID0. When I run the RAID0 balance it didn't balance the system and metadata. Do I run the system and metadata conversion manually? If so...what is the command for manually converting the system? Thanks. Quote Link to comment
Fuggin Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 2 minutes ago, Fuggin said: Hello...I had made some cache pool changes and wanted to make the entire cache pool RAID0. When I run the RAID0 balance it didn't balance the system and metadata. Do I run the system and metadata conversion manually? If so...what is the command for manually converting the system? Thanks. Actually nevermind....saw the logs that it reduces redundancy if I do that...so as long as the data is RAID0, i guess it should be fine. It'll be better than how I had my cache pool configured before anyways. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 4 hours ago, Fuggin said: Actually nevermind....saw the logs that it reduces redundancy if I do that...so as long as the data is RAID0, i guess it should be fine. It'll be better than how I had my cache pool configured before anyways. Not sure if you understand. btrfs raid0 is not redundant in the usual sense of having another copy of your data. Also, raid0 isn't the best configuration if you have different sized disks in the pool. Quote Link to comment
Fuggin Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 On 8/29/2021 at 1:07 PM, trurl said: Not sure if you understand. btrfs raid0 is not redundant in the usual sense of having another copy of your data. Also, raid0 isn't the best configuration if you have different sized disks in the pool. Both drives are the same make/model/size Quote Link to comment
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