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From: Lukas Pirl <btrfs@lukas-pirl.de>
To: Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: anything wrong with `balance -dusage -musage` together?
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 13:06:28 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <564E6404.7050100@lukas-pirl.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151119235931.GH24333@carfax.org.uk>

On 11/20/2015 12:59 PM, Hugo Mills wrote as excerpted:
>    Nothing actively wrong with that, no. It certainly won't break
> anything. It's just rarely actually useful. The usual situation is
> that you run out of one kind of storage before the other (data vs
> metadata, that is), and you need to free up some allocation of one of
> them so it can go to the other. This is typically too much data
> allocation, and metadata has run out (so -d is more often used than
> -m).
>
>    For the "usual" case of running out of metadata allocation, you
> don't actually need much space to reclaim, so -dlimit=X for small X is
> an easier approach to use.

Thanks Hugo for your quick reply.

Alright, the look at https://github.com/kdave/btrfsmaintenance
just made me think over regular balances using -*usage before one or the
other space runs out (as suggested there).

Best,

Lukas

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-20  0:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-19 23:53 anything wrong with `balance -dusage -musage` together? Lukas Pirl
2015-11-19 23:59 ` Hugo Mills
2015-11-20  0:06   ` Lukas Pirl [this message]
2015-11-20  3:41 ` Duncan

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