PS: the only snapshots are of apt-mirror, which doesn't have large files.

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Gareth Pye <gar...@cerberos.id.au> wrote:
> What are the chances that splitting all the large files up into sub
> gig pieces, finish convert, then recombine them all will work?
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Gareth Pye <gar...@cerberos.id.au> wrote:
>>> Yeah, we don't have that much space spare :(
>>>
>>> File system has been going strong from when it was created with early
>>> RAID5 code, then converted to RAID10 with kernel 3.12.
>>>
>>> There aren't any nocow files to my knowledge but there are plenty of
>>> files larger than a gig on the file system. The first few results from
>>> logical-resolve have been for files in the 1G~2G range, so that could
>>> be some sticky spaghetti.
>>
>> Are any of those big files in a snapshot? The snapshotting may be
>> pinning a bunch of large extents, so even if it seems like the volume
>> has enough space, it might actually be running out of space. All I can
>> think of is progressively removing the files that are implicated in
>> the conversion failure. That could mean just deleting older snapshots
>> that you probably don't need, progressively getting to the point where
>> you migrate those files off this fs to another one, and then delete
>> them (all instances in all subvol/snapshots) and just keep trying.
>>
>> Is a btrfs check happy? Or does it complain about anything?
>>
>> I've had quite good luck just adding a drive (two drives for raid1/10
>> volumes) to an existing btrfs volume, they don't have to be drdb, they
>> can be local block devices, either physical drives or LV's. I've even
>> done this with flash drives (kinda scary and slow but it worked).
>>
>> I'd still suggest contingency planning in case this volume becomes
>> temperamental and you have no choice but to migrate it elsewhere.
>> Better to do it on your timetable than the filesystem's.
>>
>> --
>> Chris Murphy
>
>
>
> --
> Gareth Pye
> Level 2 MTG Judge, Melbourne, Australia
> "Dear God, I would like to file a bug report"



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