I have a RAID 1, and was running a bit low, so replaced a 2TB drive with a 6TB. The other drives are a 3TB and a 4TB. After switching the drive, I did a balance and ... essentially nothing changed. It did not balance clusters over to the 6TB drive off of the other 2 drives. I found it odd, and wondered if it would do it as needed, but as time went on, the filesys got full for real.
Making inquiries on the IRC channel, it was suggested perhaps the drives were too full for a balance, but they had at least 50gb free I would estimate, when I swapped. As a test, I added a 4th drive, a spare 20gb partition and did a balance. The balance did indeed balance the 3 small drives, so they now each have 6gb unallocated, but the big drive remained unchanged. The balance reported it operated on almost all the clusters, though. Linux kernel 4.2.0 (Ubuntu Wiley) Label: 'butter' uuid: a91755d4-87d8-4acd-ae08-c11e7f1f5438 Total devices 4 FS bytes used 3.88TiB devid 1 size 3.62TiB used 3.62TiB path /dev/sdi2 devid 2 size 2.73TiB used 2.72TiB path /dev/sdh devid 3 size 5.43TiB used 1.42TiB path /dev/sdg2 devid 4 size 20.00GiB used 14.00GiB path /dev/sda1 btrfs fi usage /local Overall: Device size: 11.81TiB Device allocated: 7.77TiB Device unallocated: 4.04TiB Device missing: 0.00B Used: 7.76TiB Free (estimated): 2.02TiB (min: 2.02TiB) Data ratio: 2.00 Metadata ratio: 2.00 Global reserve: 512.00MiB (used: 0.00B) Data,RAID1: Size:3.87TiB, Used:3.87TiB /dev/sda1 14.00GiB /dev/sdg2 1.41TiB /dev/sdh 2.72TiB /dev/sdi2 3.61TiB Metadata,RAID1: Size:11.00GiB, Used:9.79GiB /dev/sdg2 5.00GiB /dev/sdh 7.00GiB /dev/sdi2 10.00GiB System,RAID1: Size:32.00MiB, Used:572.00KiB /dev/sdg2 32.00MiB /dev/sdi2 32.00MiB Unallocated: /dev/sda1 6.00GiB /dev/sdg2 4.02TiB /dev/sdh 5.52GiB /dev/sdi2 7.36GiB ---------------------- btrfs fi df /local Data, RAID1: total=3.87TiB, used=3.87TiB System, RAID1: total=32.00MiB, used=572.00KiB Metadata, RAID1: total=11.00GiB, used=9.79GiB GlobalReserve, single: total=512.00MiB, used=0.00B I would have presumed that a balance would take blocks found on both the 3TB and 4TB, and move one of them over to the 6TB until all had 1.3TB of unallocated space. But this does not happen. Any clues on how to make it happen? -- 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