From: Erik Logtenberg <erik@logtenberg.eu>
To: Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel error during btrfs balance
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:43:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D3FECAD.3080102@logtenberg.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110126092746.GJ29985@carfax.org.uk>
>> [104178.827624] entry offset 8891924480, bytes 4096, bitmap yes
>> [104178.827626] block group has cluster?: no
>> [104178.827628] 0 blocks of free space at or bigger than bytes is
>> [104178.827631] block group 17213423616 has 5368709120 bytes, 5368709120
>> used 0 pinned 0 reserved
>> [104178.827634] block group has cluster?: no
>>
>> And so on.
>>
>> Does this indicate an error of any sort, or is this expected behaviour?
>
> As far as I know, it means that you've run out of space, and not
> every block group has been rewritten by the balance process.
>
> Hugo.
>
It is a 300GB volume with 79GB free. So hardly out of space. Moreover, I
started the balance operation with the sole purpose of reclaiming some
free space. The volume had like 40GB less free space when balance
started, which was used by / reserved for Metadata.
Kind regards,
Erik.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-26 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-17 14:14 Kernel error during btrfs balance Erik Logtenberg
2011-01-17 14:31 ` Erik Logtenberg
2011-01-17 14:37 ` Erik Logtenberg
2011-01-17 14:39 ` Erik Logtenberg
2011-01-21 8:50 ` Erik Logtenberg
2011-01-21 9:19 ` Yan, Zheng
2011-01-26 9:04 ` Erik Logtenberg
2011-01-26 9:27 ` Hugo Mills
2011-01-26 9:40 ` Helmut Hullen
2011-01-26 9:46 ` Erik Logtenberg
2011-01-29 10:56 ` Chris Samuel
2011-01-26 9:43 ` Erik Logtenberg [this message]
2011-01-18 0:54 ` Yan, Zheng
2011-01-18 13:22 ` Erik Logtenberg
2011-01-18 13:58 ` Helmut Hullen
2011-01-18 14:13 ` Yan, Zheng
2011-01-18 14:29 ` Erik Logtenberg
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