2011-04-06 12:43:50 +0100, Stephane Chazelas: [...] > The rate is going down. It's now down to about 14kB/s > > [658654.295752] btrfs: relocating block group 3919858106368 flags 20 > [671932.913235] btrfs: relocating block group 3919589670912 flags 20 > [686189.296126] btrfs: relocating block group 3919321235456 flags 20 > [701511.523990] btrfs: relocating block group 3919052800000 flags 20 > [718591.316339] btrfs: relocating block group 3918784364544 flags 20 > [725567.081031] btrfs: relocating block group 3918515929088 flags 20 > [744415.011581] btrfs: relocating block group 3918247493632 flags 20 > [762365.021458] btrfs: relocating block group 3917979058176 flags 20 > [780504.726067] btrfs: relocating block group 3917710622720 flags 20 [...] > At this rate, the balancing would be over in about 8 years. [...]
Hurray! The btrfs balance eventually ran through after almost exactly 2 weeks. It didn't get down to 0: [1189505.152717] btrfs: found 60527 extents [1189505.440565] btrfs: relocating block group 3910731300864 flags 20 [1199805.071045] btrfs: found 60235 extents [1199805.447821] btrfs: relocating block group 3910462865408 flags 20 [1207914.737372] btrfs: found 58039 extents iostat reckons 9TB have been written to disk in the whole process (4.5TB read from them (!?)). There hasn't been any change in allocation though: # df -h /backup Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 8.2T 3.5T 3.2T 53% /backup # btrfs fi df /backup Data, RAID0: total=3.42TB, used=3.41TB System, RAID1: total=16.00MB, used=228.00KB Metadata, RAID1: total=28.00GB, used=20.47GB # btrfs fi show Label: none uuid: a0ae35c4-51f2-405f-a4bb-e4f134b1d193 Total devices 3 FS bytes used 3.43TB devid 4 size 2.73TB used 1.17TB path /dev/sdc devid 3 size 2.73TB used 1.17TB path /dev/sdb devid 2 size 2.70TB used 1.14TB path /dev/sda4 Btrfs Btrfs v0.19 Still 1.5TB missing. -- Stephane -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html