On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 12:50 PM Austin S. Hemmelgarn <ahferro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2019-06-18 14:45, Hugo Mills wrote: > > -dlimit=100 will only move 100 GiB of data (i.e. 200 GiB), so it'll > > be a pretty limited change. You'll need to use a larger number than > > that if you want it to have a significant visible effect. > Last I checked, that's not how the limit filter works. AFAIUI, it's an > upper limit on how full a chunk can be to be considered for the balance > operation. So, balancing with only `-dlimit=100` should actually > balance all data chunks (but only data chunks, because you haven't asked > for metadata balancing).
You're thinking of -dusage filter, which is what I mostly use, and is a percentage value (or a range), whereas the limit filter is a quantity of block groups, or a range. -- Chris Murphy
