Device add/removal
The following subcommands exist for adding and removing devices from a mounted filesystem:
bcachefs device add
: Formats and adds a new device to an existing filesystem.bcachefs device remove
: Permenantly removes a device from an existing filesystem.bcachefs device online
: Connects a device to a running filesystem that was mounted without it (i.e. in degraded mode)bcachefs device offline
: Disconnects a device from a mounted filesystem without removing it.bcachefs device evacuate
: Migrates data off of a particular device to prepare for removal, setting it read-only if necessary.bcachefs device set-state
: Changes the state of a member device: one of rw (readwrite), ro (readonly), failed, or spare.A failed device is considered to have 0 durability, and replicas on that device won’t be counted towards the number of replicas an extent should have by rereplicate - however, bcachefs will still attempt to read from devices marked as failed.
The bcachefs device remove
, bcachefs device offline
and
bcachefs device set-state
commands take force options for when they
would leave the filesystem degraded or with data missing. Todo:
regularize and improve those options.