On 2014-12-04 09:25, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Austin S Hemmelgarn
> <ahferroin7@gmail.com> wrote:
>> SuSE may have an old version of btrfs-progs then (which wouldn't surprise
>> me, it is an 'enterprise' distribution after all), because I haven't seen
>> this on anything since 3.16.
>
> Well OK I kinda like the "old" name SuSE since that was the name I was
> using back when I was on 9.3, but actually I'm running openSUSE
> Tumbleweed. See:
>
> $ btrfs --version
> Btrfs v3.17+20141103
>
> I suppose Tumbleweed should be short and clear enough for my future usage.
>
>> Also, for future reference, you can use the switch -mprofiles=single to just
>> balance out those chunks.
>
> Wow, thanks, that returned quickly. (Thankfully I did btrfs bal from a
> separate terminal can rather than ^C.)
>
> BTW I thought you had unintentionally (for brevity) omitted the
> -sprofiles=single and I gave it but it complained saying:
>
> Refusing to explicitly operate on system chunks.
> Pass --force if you really want to do that.
>
> So I did give --force. (Is it the same as -f?)
>
> I hope that was OK?
>
Shouldn't be a problem, but unless they have changed the behavior 
recently specifying a filter for metadata also runs with that filter for 
system chunks unless you explicitly specify a different filter set for 
those.  The reason for the warning regarding system chunks is that if 
they get messed up, you pretty much lose everything on the disk.