Re: btrfs balance fails with no space errors (despite having plenty)

2015-03-24 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:25:30 + Kline, Matthew matthew.kl...@flukenetworks.com wrote: Sorry to necrobump this, but the issue came up again. I'm now on Linux 3.19.2 with btrfs-progs 3.19, and I converted my work laptop from ext4 to btrfs. Same issue - the conversion goes well, removing the

RE: btrfs balance fails with no space errors (despite having plenty)

2015-03-24 Thread Kline, Matthew
Post your btrfs fi df for the filesystem. In my experience it looks like the conversion may designate large portions of data as metadata for whatever reason. A way to clean this up is to run btrfs fi balance start -musage=5 -dusage=5 /path try repeating this again and again increasing

Re: btrfs balance fails with no space errors (despite having plenty)

2015-03-24 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 23:09:47 + Kline, Matthew matthew.kl...@flukenetworks.com wrote: Data, single: total=44.00GiB, used=43.37GiB System, single: total=32.00MiB, used=12.00KiB Metadata, single: total=2.00GiB, used=876.84MiB GlobalReserve, single: total=296.00MiB, used=0.00B Total

Re: btrfs balance fails with no space errors (despite having plenty)

2015-03-24 Thread Kline, Matthew
Sorry to necrobump this, but the issue came up again. I'm now on Linux 3.19.2 with btrfs-progs 3.19, and I converted my work laptop from ext4 to btrfs. Same issue - the conversion goes well, removing the ext* subvolume is fine, defragging is works, and then when I balance, it claims there is no

Re: btrfs balance fails with no space errors (despite having plenty)

2015-03-24 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:09:47PM +, Kline, Matthew wrote: Post your btrfs fi df for the filesystem. In my experience it looks like the conversion may designate large portions of data as metadata for whatever reason. A way to clean this up is to run btrfs fi balance start

Re: btrfs balance fails with no space errors (despite having plenty)

2015-03-24 Thread Russell Coker
I've been having ongoing issues with balance failing with no space errors in spite of having plenty. Strangely it seems to most often happen from cron jobs, when a cron job fails I can count on a manual balance succeeding. I'm running the latest Debian/Jessie kernel. -- Sent from my Samsung

Re: btrfs balance fails with no space errors (despite having plenty)

2014-11-13 Thread Hugo Mills
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 06:48:47PM +, Kline, Matthew wrote: Yesterday I converted my ext4 root and home partitions on my home machine to btrfs using btrfs-convert. After confirming that everything went well, I followed the wiki instructions to nuke the 'ext2_saved subvolume, then defraggad

btrfs balance fails with no space errors (despite having plenty)

2014-11-12 Thread Kline, Matthew
Hi all, Yesterday I converted my ext4 root and home partitions on my home machine to btrfs using btrfs-convert. After confirming that everything went well, I followed the wiki instructions to nuke the 'ext2_saved subvolume, then defraggad and rebalanced. Everything went according to plan on my

Re: btrfs balance fails with no space errors (despite having plenty)

2014-11-12 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Kline, Matthew matthew.kl...@flukenetworks.com wrote: Hi all, Yesterday I converted my ext4 root and home partitions on my home machine to btrfs using btrfs-convert. After confirming that everything went well, I followed the wiki instructions to nuke the

Re: btrfs balance fails with no space errors (despite having plenty)

2014-11-12 Thread Duncan
Kline, Matthew posted on Wed, 12 Nov 2014 18:48:47 + as excerpted: Hi all, Yesterday I converted my ext4 root and home partitions on my home machine to btrfs using btrfs-convert. After confirming that everything went well, I followed the wiki instructions to nuke the 'ext2_saved