Dne 22.4.2016 v 23:00 Nicholas D Steeves napsal(a):
> On 21 April 2016 at 18:44, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 6:53 AM, Martin Svec <martin.s...@zoner.cz> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> we use btrfs subvolumes for rsync-based backups. During backups btrfs often 
>>> fails with "No space
>>> left" error and goes to readonly mode (dmesg output is below) while there's 
>>> still plenty of
>>> unallocated space:
>> Are you snapshotting near the time of enospc? If so it's a known
>> problem that's been around for a while. There are some suggestions in
>> the archives but I think the main thing is to back off on the workload
>> momentarily, take the snapshot, and then resume the workload. I don't
>> think it has to come to a complete stop but it's a lot more
>> reproducible with heavy writes.
> Is this known problem specific to heavy writes + take a snapshot + -o
> compress (either zlib or lzo), or does this enospc also affect the
> more simple heavy writes + take a snapshot case?  Is there a greater
> likelyhood of running into it if using compression?

In our case, I saw no difference when the compression was disabled.

Martin Svec

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