Lukas Pirl posted on Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:43:41 +1300 as excerpted: > Is e.g. "balance" also influenced by the userspace tools or does > the kernel the actual work?
btrfs balance is done "online", that is, on the (writable-)mounted filesystem, and the kernel does the real work. It's the tools that work on the unmounted filesystem, btrfs check, btrfs restore, btrfs rescue, etc, where the userspace code does the real work, and thus where being current and having all the latests userspace fixes is vital. If you can't mount writable, you can't balance. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- 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
