On Saturday 03 July 2010 09:33:19 Lubos Kolouch wrote:
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> Oystein Viggen, Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:15:03 +0200:
> > For btrfs with lots of snapshots, I believe "btrfs device add" of the
> > new device followed by "btrfs device remove" of the old one would be the
> > most convenient.
> > 
> > Øystein
> 
> This solution if very elegant and cool - if you can put the discs into one
> computer.
> 
> It does not help too much to copy the files over network and preserve the
> snapshots... or can you add like this a network-attached device (sshfs) ?

You could also go the totally cool option (albeit a bit creazy) and use 
network block devices and have no downtime...

The overall process will take more time though.

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