Hello everyone! First, thanks for amazing work on btrfs filesystem! Now the problem: I use a ssd as my system drive (/dev/sda2) and use daily snapshots on it. Then, from time to time, i sync those on HDD (/dev/sdb4) by using btrfs send / receive like this: ionice -c3 btrfs send -p /ssd/previously_synced_snapshot /ssd/snapshot-X | pv | btrfs receive /hdd/snapshots I use pv to measure speed and i get ridiculos speeds like 5-200kiB/s! (rarely it goes over 1miB). However if i replace the btrfs receive with cat >/dev/null - the speed is 400-500MiB/s (almost full SSD speed) so I understand that the problem is the fs on the HDD... Do you have any idea of how to trace this problem down? Note: I had quota enabled on that hdd before and disable id since it was making problems. Any help is appreciated. Thanks! here is some more information: $ uname -a Linux nick-G55VW 3.16.0-28-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 8 17:15:28 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ btrfs --version Btrfs v3.14.1 $ sudo btrfs fi show Label: none uuid: 5f0ca1d2-b2c4-499e-a7df-efb2590b6502 Total devices 1 FS bytes used 169.68GiB devid 1 size 300.00GiB used 300.00GiB path /dev/sda2 Label: 'hdd' uuid: 35423c57-13e0-44e9-bacb-6f467ec4b885 Total devices 1 FS bytes used 310.47GiB devid 1 size 447.44GiB used 447.44GiB path /dev/sdb4 Btrfs v3.14.1 btrfs fi df / # i create a readonly snapshot of this on every boot to /mnt/snapshots (on the same SSD) Data, single: total=289.99GiB, used=163.22GiB System, single: total=4.00MiB, used=48.00KiB Metadata, single: total=10.01GiB, used=6.46GiB unknown, single: total=512.00MiB, used=0.00 btrfs fi df /home/ # i create a readonly snapshot on every GUI login Data, single: total=289.99GiB, used=163.22GiB System, single: total=4.00MiB, used=48.00KiB Metadata, single: total=10.01GiB, used=6.46GiB unknown, single: total=512.00MiB, used=0.00 btrfs fi df /mnt/snapshots # when syncing to HDD this is the source Data, single: total=289.99GiB, used=163.22GiB System, single: total=4.00MiB, used=48.00KiB Metadata, single: total=10.01GiB, used=6.46GiB unknown, single: total=512.00MiB, used=0.00 btrfs fi df /mnt/snapshots_hdd/@snapshots/ # the destination on the HDD for syncing with btrfs receive Data, single: total=436.41GiB, used=302.74GiB System, single: total=32.00MiB, used=48.00KiB Metadata, single: total=11.00GiB, used=7.47GiB unknown, single: total=512.00MiB, used=12.00KiB