From: Marc Haber <mh+linux-btrfs@zugschlus.de>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: balance hangs and starts again on reboot
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 15:17:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160305141707.GC1902@torres.zugschlus.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56D9CF63.3060603@googlemail.com>
On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 07:09:39PM +0100, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
> On 03/04/16 18:31, Marc Haber wrote:
> > I have another btrfs on the same host that has no the no space left on
> > device balance issue, but on another disk. On this btrfs, it seems
> > like a balance process is stuck, with a lot of hanging kernel
> > threads. After a reboot, when I mount the filesystem, the balance
> > immediately starts again. btrfs balance cancel just hangs around with
> > no visible reaction for hours.
> >
> > Log appended. Is there rescue?
>
> Can't offer much help other than to recommend to *always* mount with
> -o skip_balance, which IMHO should have been the default behaviour
> from the beginning.
That's an important hint. The btrfs balance cancel has worked over
night though.
> Then try to balance in small increments.
-dusage=5 and incrementing? Or what do you mean with "in small
increments"?
Greetings
Marc
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-04 17:31 balance hangs and starts again on reboot Marc Haber
2016-03-04 18:09 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2016-03-05 14:17 ` Marc Haber [this message]
2016-03-05 15:38 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2016-03-05 17:25 ` Marc Haber
2016-03-05 18:00 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2016-03-06 6:12 ` Duncan
2016-03-04 19:08 ` Chris Murphy
2016-03-05 14:12 ` Marc Haber
2016-03-05 17:07 ` Chris Murphy
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