On 12-02-26 02:52 PM, Daniel Lee wrote:
> What's mysterious about that?

What's mysterious about needing to grow the filesystem to over 20GB to
unpack 10MB of (small, so yes, many) files?

> When you shrink it btrfs is going to throw
> away unused data to cram it all in the requested space and you had empty
> space that was taken up by the metadata allocation.

The shrinking is secondary mystery.  It's the need for more than 20GB of
space for less than 3GB of files that's the major mystery.

> Did you compare
> btrfs fi df after you shrank it with before?

I didn't unfortunately.

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