Using btrfs progs 4.3.1 on a Vanilla kernel.org 4.1.15 kernel.
time btrfs device delete /dev/xvdh /backups real 13936m56.796s user 0m0.000s sys 1351m48.280s (which is about 9 days). Where : /dev/xvdh was 120gb in size. /backups is a single / "raid 0" volume that now looks like : Label: 'BACKUP_BTRFS_SNAPS' uuid: 6ee08c31-f310-4890-8424-b88bb77186ed Total devices 3 FS bytes used 301.09GiB devid 1 size 100.00GiB used 90.00GiB path /dev/xvdg devid 3 size 220.00GiB used 196.06GiB path /dev/xvdi devid 4 size 221.00GiB used 59.06GiB path /dev/xvdj There are about 400 snapshots on it. thanks David. -- 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