On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 04:38:57PM +0100, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > On 03/05/16 15:17, Marc Haber wrote: > >> Then try to balance in small increments. > > > > -dusage=5 and incrementing? Or what do you mean with "in small > > increments"? > > Exactly, yes. Sorry for not being more clear.
So you would recommend something along for nr in $(seq 5 5 100); do btrfs balance start -dusage=$nr $FS done right? Won't this take ages longer than a straight unfiltered balance? > FWIW I've been balancing a lot recently (both for stress testing and > cleaning up a few filesystems) and have never run into this particular > stall, but only ever do filtered balances. Also I wouldn't be surprised > at all if this is yet another problem where md does something in a way > that btrfs doesn' expect, and things go wrong. md as in the Linux Software RAID? That's not in the game here, it's a single SATA hard disk. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421 -- 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
