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

["Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com>]

On 2017-01-10 10:47, Hugo Mills wrote:
> 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.
Apologies, I somehow completely missed the part of your first reply 
where you commented on that...
>
>    Agreed with everything else, though.
>
>    Hugo.
>