2015-08-11 15:20 GMT+02:00 Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferro...@gmail.com>: > How much slack space was allocated by BTRFS before running the balance (ie, > how big a difference was there between the allocated and used space), and > did the balance run to completion? If you had a lot of mostly empty chunks > and stopped the balance part way through, then this is what I would expect > to happen (balance back-fills partial chunks before it starts allocating new > ones). > > If that is not the case however, then this is very much _not_ normal, and is > almost certainly a bug, in which case you should make sure any important > data on the filesystem is backed up before doing anything further with it > (including unmounting it or rebooting the system). >
I don't have the usage numbers before running the balance, but I have around 1000 readonly snapshots, so maybe that's a factor. It keeps running and using both CPU and IO, so I'll wait to see what happens. Thank you. -- Juan Orti https://miceliux.com -- 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
