-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/09/14 05:30, Zygo Blaxell wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 01:27:36PM +0100, Bob Williams wrote: >> I have two 2TB disks formatted as a btrfs raid1 array, mirroring >> both data and metadata. Last night I started >> >> # btrfs filesystem balance <path> >> [...] > >> As a rough guide, how often should one perform >> >> a) balance > > I have a cron job that runs 'btrfs balance resume' or 'btrfs > balance start' (depending on whether a balance is already in > progress) nightly at 1AM. Another cron job comes along at 6AM to > run 'btrfs balance pause' on my headless servers. On my desktops > and laptops I have a daemon that detects keyboard/mouse input and > does 'btrfs balance pause' when some is detected (the balance > remains paused until the next day at 1AM, as it is really heavy and > takes a long time to come to a stop). > [...]
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread. I have learnt a lot, and now have weekly cronjobs to balance and scrub. Bob - -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.11.10-21-desktop Distro: openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.14.0 Uptime: 06:00am up 6 days 15:04, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.05 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlQRZp4ACgkQ0Sr7eZJrmU7YcACgpMcD4w3J8IV8m4MpYSG8jl1/ kLEAoITiw3EcpvnELw2KlRaa3GlYEWUV =ICmv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
