Re: mkfs.btrfs/balance small-btrfs chunk size RFC

[Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>]

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:42:51AM -0500, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:
> Most of the issue in this case is with the size of the initial
> chunk. That said, I've got quite a few reasonably sized filesystems
> (I think the largest is 200GB) with moderate usage (max 90GB of
> data), and none of them are using more than the first 16kB block in
> the System chunk. While I'm not necessarily a typical user, I'd be
> willing to bet based on this that in general, most people who aren't
> storing very large amounts of data or taking huge numbers of
> snapshots aren't going to need a system chunk much bigger than 1MB.

   Again, the system chunk has *nothing* to do with snapshots.

   Agreed with everything else, though.

   Hugo.

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