From: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: -musage=>0 means always reporting relocation
Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 19:43:16 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201405111943.16913.russell@coker.com.au> (raw)
Below is the output of running a balance a few times on a 120G SSD.
It seems that whenever I set the metadata usage to be greater than 0 it will
report relocating something, regardless of whether that's possible.
root@server:~# btrfs fi balance start -dusage=0 -musage=0 /
Done, had to relocate 0 out of 108 chunks
root@server:~# btrfs fi balance start -dusage=0 -musage=0 /
Done, had to relocate 0 out of 108 chunks
root@server:~# btrfs fi balance start -dusage=0 -musage=10 /
Done, had to relocate 1 out of 108 chunks
root@server:~# btrfs fi balance start -dusage=0 -musage=10 /
Done, had to relocate 1 out of 108 chunks
root@server:~# btrfs fi balance start -dusage=0 -musage=10 /
Done, had to relocate 1 out of 108 chunks
root@server:~# btrfs fi balance start -dusage=0 -musage=10 /
Done, had to relocate 1 out of 108 chunks
root@server:~# btrfs fi balance start -dusage=0 -musage=1 /
Done, had to relocate 1 out of 108 chunks
root@server:~# btrfs fi balance start -dusage=0 -musage=0 /
Done, had to relocate 0 out of 108 chunks
root@server:~# btrfs fi balance start -dusage=1 -musage=0 /
Done, had to relocate 0 out of 108 chunks
root@server:~# btrfs fi balance start -dusage=10 -musage=0 /
Done, had to relocate 0 out of 108 chunks
During each run of -musage=N I'd get a couple of kernel lines like the
following. It was apparently doing something, but whatever that was probably
wasn't useful.
[1394107.479342] BTRFS info (device dm-0): relocating block group 766120755200
flags 34
[1394107.589661] BTRFS info (device dm-0): found 2 extents
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next reply other threads:[~2014-05-11 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-11 9:43 Russell Coker [this message]
2014-05-11 9:52 ` -musage=>0 means always reporting relocation Russell Coker
2014-05-11 14:11 ` Brendan Hide
2014-05-12 16:17 ` David Sterba
2014-05-13 7:57 ` Russell Coker
2014-05-13 18:06 ` Duncan
2014-05-11 16:17 ` Duncan
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