From: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com>,
MegaBrutal <megabrutal@gmail.com>,
linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "No space left on device" and balance doesn't work
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 09:27:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <575274C1.8070801@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bcf8033b-bafe-f927-efdb-b898d2b00a24@gmail.com>
02.06.2016 15:56, Austin S. Hemmelgarn пишет:
>
> In your particular situation, what's happened is that you have all the
> space allocated to chunks, but have free space within those chunks.
> Balance never puts data in existing chunks, and you can't allocate any
> new chunks, so you can't run a balance. However, because of that free
> space in the chunks, you can still use the filesystem itself for
> 'regular' filesystem operations.
>
How balance decides where to put data from chunks it frees? I.e. let's
say I have one free data chunk and 10 chunks filled to 10%. Will "btrfs
ba start -dusage=10" pack data from all 10 chunks into single one, this
freeing 10 chunks for further processing?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-04 6:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-01 18:30 "No space left on device" and balance doesn't work MegaBrutal
2016-06-01 20:30 ` Peter Becker
[not found] ` <CAEtw4r2hsCd1+bFNcXn_s5jj-8x6qer+x0gLx8wTgNi1=nAXhw@mail.gmail.com>
2016-06-01 21:06 ` MegaBrutal
2016-06-01 22:22 ` Henk Slager
2016-06-02 13:55 ` MegaBrutal
2016-06-02 22:45 ` Henk Slager
2016-06-03 5:51 ` Marc Haber
2016-06-03 12:43 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-08-09 9:50 ` MegaBrutal
2016-08-09 11:16 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-08-09 12:56 ` Noah Massey
2016-06-02 12:56 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-06-04 6:27 ` Andrei Borzenkov [this message]
2016-06-04 7:57 ` Hugo Mills
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