Re: Progress of device deletion?

2013-10-01 Thread Duncan
Chris Murphy posted on Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:26:16 -0600 as excerpted: The other thing, clearly the OP is surprised it's taking anywhere near this long. Had he known in advance, he probably would have made a different choice. I had a longer version that I wrote first, but decided was /too/ long

Re: Progress of device deletion?

2013-09-30 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sep 29, 2013, at 1:13 AM, Fredrik Tolf fred...@dolda2000.com wrote: Is there any way I can find out what's going on? For whatever reason, it started out with every drive practically full, in terms of chunk allocation. e.g.devid5 size 2.73TB used 2.71TB path /dev/sdh1 I don't

Re: Progress of device deletion?

2013-09-30 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sep 30, 2013, at 8:27 AM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Sep 29, 2013, at 1:13 AM, Fredrik Tolf fred...@dolda2000.com wrote: Is there any way I can find out what's going on? For whatever reason, it started out with every drive practically full, in terms of chunk

Re: Progress of device deletion?

2013-09-30 Thread Duncan
Chris Murphy posted on Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:05:36 -0600 as excerpted: It probably seems weird to add drives to remove drives, but sometimes (always?) Btrfs really gets a bit piggish about allocating a lot more chunks than there is data. Or maybe it's not deallocating space as aggressively as

Re: Progress of device deletion?

2013-09-30 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sep 30, 2013, at 10:43 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Meanwhile, I really do have to question the use case where the risks of a single dead device killing a raid0 (or for that matter, running still experimental btrfs) are fine, but spending days doing data maintenance on data