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Changing metadata block size after the fact

DISCUSSION Holger Hoffstaette 2 participants 2 messages Jan 13, 2013 Btrfs file system

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Hi,

I have an existing btrfs filesystem which was initialized with defaults. I want to increase the metadata block size, but after reading wiki/man pages etc. have come to the conclusion that this does not seem to be possible. Is this correct, and the only way would be backup/mkfs with -l/restore?

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Quoted 7 lines · Holger Hoffstaette

Hi,

I have an existing btrfs filesystem which was initialized with defaults. I want to increase the metadata block size, but after reading wiki/man pages etc. have come to the conclusion that this does not seem to be possible. Is this correct, and the only way would be backup/mkfs with -l/restore?

Correct, you can't change the metadata block size once the FS has
been created.

Hugo.

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