On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Christian <cdys...@gmail.com> wrote: > I tried to balance my home folder. The disk spins and after an hour it > hasn't completed. This is a 300 GB home directory about half full. I know > balance takes while, but how long should it take? This is a 7200 rpm disk on > a dual 2 ghz processor laptop running Linux Mint 11 and btrfs 0.19. It has > an ext2 /boot, a btrfs / and btrfs /home partitions. The btrfs partitions > have compression enabled.
Balance currently rewrites everything, and does it in a not-terribly-efficient way. It's probably done by now (8 hours since your message), which isn't unusual. There's some improvements in the pipeline, but they're not in a released kernel yet. -- 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
