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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <tch@virtall.com>
To: "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: no space left, metadata usage almost full?
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 21:37:28 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131218213728.07d47dd5@virtall.com> (raw)

I have a btrfs filesystem which has plenty of free space left, yet it's
hitting out of space regularly.

Here is how it looks like:

# btrfs fi df /home
Data, RAID1: total=2.51TiB, used=1.58TiB
System, RAID1: total=32.00MiB, used=372.00KiB
Metadata, RAID1: total=48.00GiB, used=47.23GiB


What I read from it, is we're almost full on metadata usage, and that
might be causing out of space issues.

Reading past posts on this group, I can see it's recommended to run
this if I hit out of space and the fs is low on metadata space:

# btrfs fi balance start -dusage=5 /home

Is it really the only workaround? Shouldn't the filesystem be more
intelligent and be able to grab some more metadata space if it's
running low?

I'd appreciate some clarifications on this (FYI, it was running
3.11.4, upgraded to the latest rc now).


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

             reply	other threads:[~2013-12-18 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-18 12:37 Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2013-12-18 12:46 ` no space left, metadata usage almost full? Hugo Mills
2013-12-18 14:54   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2013-12-18 15:11     ` Hugo Mills

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