Re: anything wrong with `balance -dusage -musage` together?

[Lukas Pirl <btrfs@lukas-pirl.de>]

On 11/20/2015 12:59 PM, Hugo Mills wrote as excerpted:
>    Nothing actively wrong with that, no. It certainly won't break
> anything. It's just rarely actually useful. The usual situation is
> that you run out of one kind of storage before the other (data vs
> metadata, that is), and you need to free up some allocation of one of
> them so it can go to the other. This is typically too much data
> allocation, and metadata has run out (so -d is more often used than
> -m).
>
>    For the "usual" case of running out of metadata allocation, you
> don't actually need much space to reclaim, so -dlimit=X for small X is
> an easier approach to use.

Thanks Hugo for your quick reply.

Alright, the look at https://github.com/kdave/btrfsmaintenance
just made me think over regular balances using -*usage before one or the
other space runs out (as suggested there).

Best,

Lukas