Re: Major HDD performance degradation on btrfs receive

[Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscription@bouton.name>]

Le 23/02/2016 18:34, Marc MERLIN a écrit :
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 09:26:35AM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
>> Label: 'dshelf2'  uuid: d4a51178-c1e6-4219-95ab-5c5864695bfd
>>         Total devices 1 FS bytes used 4.25TiB
>>         devid    1 size 7.28TiB used 4.44TiB path /dev/mapper/dshelf2
>>
>> btrfs fi df /mnt/btrfs_pool2/
>> Data, single: total=4.29TiB, used=4.18TiB
>> System, DUP: total=64.00MiB, used=512.00KiB
>> Metadata, DUP: total=77.50GiB, used=73.31GiB
>> GlobalReserve, single: total=512.00MiB, used=31.22MiB
>>
>> Currently, it's btrfs on top of dmcrpyt on top of swraid5
> Sorry, I forgot to give the mount options:
> /dev/mapper/dshelf2 on /mnt/dshelf2/backup type btrfs (rw,noatime,compress=lzo,space_cache,skip_balance,subvolid=257,subvol=/backup)

Why don't you use autodefrag ? If you have writable snapshots and do
write to them heavily it would not be a good idea (depending on how
BTRFS handles this in most cases you would probably either break the
reflinks or fragment a snapshot to defragment another) but if you only
have read-only snapshots it may work for you (it does for me).

The only BTRFS filesystems where I disabled autodefrag where Ceph OSDs
with heavy in-place updates. Another option would have been to mark
files NoCoW but I didn't want to abandon BTRFS checksumming.

Lionel