Re: Reducing impact of periodic btrfs balance

2016-05-31 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2016-05-26 18:12, Graham Cobb wrote: On 19/05/16 02:33, Qu Wenruo wrote: Graham Cobb wrote on 2016/05/18 14:29 +0100: A while ago I had a "no space" problem (despite fi df, fi show and fi usage all agreeing I had over 1TB free). But this email isn't about that. As part of fixing that

Re: Reducing impact of periodic btrfs balance

2016-05-26 Thread Graham Cobb
On 19/05/16 02:33, Qu Wenruo wrote: > > > Graham Cobb wrote on 2016/05/18 14:29 +0100: >> A while ago I had a "no space" problem (despite fi df, fi show and fi >> usage all agreeing I had over 1TB free). But this email isn't about >> that. >> >> As part of fixing that problem, I tried to do a

RE: [Not TLS] Re: Reducing impact of periodic btrfs balance

2016-05-19 Thread Paul Jones
> -Original Message- > From: linux-btrfs-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-btrfs- > ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Graham Cobb > Sent: Thursday, 19 May 2016 8:11 PM > To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [Not TLS] Re: Reducing impact of periodic btrfs

Re: [Not TLS] Re: Reducing impact of periodic btrfs balance

2016-05-19 Thread Graham Cobb
On 19/05/16 05:09, Duncan wrote: > So to Graham, are these 1.5K snapshots all of the same subvolume, or > split into snapshots of several subvolumes? If it's all of the same > subvolume or of only 2-3 subvolumes, you still have some work to do in > terms of getting down to recommended snapshot

Re: Reducing impact of periodic btrfs balance

2016-05-18 Thread Duncan
Qu Wenruo posted on Thu, 19 May 2016 09:33:19 +0800 as excerpted: > Graham Cobb wrote on 2016/05/18 14:29 +0100: >> Hi, >> >> I have a 6TB btrfs filesystem I created last year (about 60% used). It >> is my main data disk for my home server so it gets a lot of usage >> (particularly mail). I do

Re: Reducing impact of periodic btrfs balance

2016-05-18 Thread Qu Wenruo
Graham Cobb wrote on 2016/05/18 14:29 +0100: Hi, I have a 6TB btrfs filesystem I created last year (about 60% used). It is my main data disk for my home server so it gets a lot of usage (particularly mail). I do frequent snapshots (using btrbk) so I have a lot of snapshots (about 1500 now,

RE: Reducing impact of periodic btrfs balance

2016-05-18 Thread Paul Jones
> -Original Message- > From: linux-btrfs-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-btrfs- > ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Graham Cobb > Sent: Wednesday, 18 May 2016 11:30 PM > To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Reducing impact of periodic btrfs balance > > Hi, > > I have a 6TB