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From: "Helmut Hullen" <Hullen@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: btrfs balancing start - and stop?
Date: 01 Apr 2011 14:12:00 +0200
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Hallo, Struan,

Du meintest am 01.04.11:

> 1) Is the balancing operation expected to take many hours (or days?)
> on a filesystem such as this? Or are there known issues with the
> algorithm that are yet to be addressed?

May be. Balancing about 15 GByte needed about 2 hours (or less),  
balancing about 2 TByte needed about 20 hours.

"dmesg" counts down the number of remaining "jobs".

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut