From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konstantinos Skarlatos Subject: Re: btrfs balancing start - and stop? Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:22:39 +0300 Message-ID: <4D95D19F.7060101@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Cc: Helmut Hullen , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: helmut@hullen.de Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: On 1/4/2011 3:12 =CE=BC=CE=BC, Helmut Hullen wrote: > Hallo, Struan, > > Du meintest am 01.04.11: > >> 1) Is the balancing operation expected to take many hours (or days?) >> on a filesystem such as this? Or are there known issues with the >> algorithm that are yet to be addressed? > May be. Balancing about 15 GByte needed about 2 hours (or less), > balancing about 2 TByte needed about 20 hours. > > "dmesg" counts down the number of remaining "jobs". are you sure? here is a snippet of dmesg from a balance i did yesterday= =20 (2.6.38.1) btrfs: relocating block group 15338569728 flags 9 btrfs: found 17296 extents btrfs: found 17296 extents btrfs: relocating block group 13191086080 flags 9 btrfs: found 21029 extents btrfs: found 21029 extents btrfs: relocating block group 11043602432 flags 9 btrfs: found 4728 extents btrfs: found 4728 extents > Viele Gruesse! > Helmut > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs= " in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html