On 01/08/2018 04:55 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > [...] > > And here's the FAQ entry: > > Q: Do I need to run a balance regularly? > > A: In general usage, no. A full unfiltered balance typically takes a > long time, and will rewrite huge amounts of data unnecessarily. You may > wish to run a balance on metadata only (see Balance_Filters) if you find > you have very large amounts of metadata space allocated but unused, but > this should be a last resort.
IHMO three more sentencens and the answer would be more useful: 1. BTRFS balance command example with note check the man first. 2. What use case may cause 'large amounts of metadata space allocated but unused'. -- PGP Public Key (RSA/4096b): ID: 0xF2C6EA10 SHA-1: 51DA 40EE 832A 0572 5AD8 B3C0 7AFF 69E1 F2C6 EA10 -- 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
