Re: Is it possible to reclaim block groups once they are allocated to data or metadata?

2012-05-06 Thread Ilya Dryomov
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 01:07:06PM +1000, Mike Sampson wrote: On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 10:37:01PM +1000, Mike Sampson wrote: Hello list, recently reformatted my home partition from XFS to RAID1 btrfs. I used the

Re: Is it possible to reclaim block groups once they are allocated to data or metadata?

2012-05-06 Thread Hugo Mills
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 01:26:45PM +0300, Ilya Dryomov wrote: On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 01:07:06PM +1000, Mike Sampson wrote: There is now 8GB less in Metadata and I was able to delete some files as well to free up space. There is still a lot of wasted space in the metadata block groups. It

Re: Is it possible to reclaim block groups once they are allocated to data or metadata?

2012-05-06 Thread Ilya Dryomov
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 11:37:27AM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 01:26:45PM +0300, Ilya Dryomov wrote: On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 01:07:06PM +1000, Mike Sampson wrote: There is now 8GB less in Metadata and I was able to delete some files as well to free up space. There is

Is it possible to reclaim block groups once they are allocated to data or metadata?

2012-05-05 Thread Mike Sampson
Hello list, recently reformatted my home partition from XFS to RAID1 btrfs. I used the default options to mkfs.btrfs except for enabling raid1 for data as well as metadata. Filesystem is made up of two 1TB drives. mike@mercury (0) pts/3 ~ $ sudo btrfs filesystem show Label: none uuid:

Re: Is it possible to reclaim block groups once they are allocated to data or metadata?

2012-05-05 Thread Hugo Mills
On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 10:37:01PM +1000, Mike Sampson wrote: Hello list, recently reformatted my home partition from XFS to RAID1 btrfs. I used the default options to mkfs.btrfs except for enabling raid1 for data as well as metadata. Filesystem is made up of two 1TB drives. mike@mercury

Re: Is it possible to reclaim block groups once they are allocated to data or metadata?

2012-05-05 Thread Mike Sampson
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 10:37:01PM +1000, Mike Sampson wrote: Hello list, recently reformatted my home partition from XFS to RAID1 btrfs. I used the default options to mkfs.btrfs except for enabling raid1 for data as well