From: "Holger Hoffstätte" <holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com>
To: Marc Haber <mh+linux-btrfs@zugschlus.de>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: balance hangs and starts again on reboot
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 19:09:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D9CF63.3060603@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160304173125.GA1902@torres.zugschlus.de>
On 03/04/16 18:31, Marc Haber wrote:
> I have another btrfs on the same host that has no the no space left on
> device balance issue, but on another disk. On this btrfs, it seems
> like a balance process is stuck, with a lot of hanging kernel
> threads. After a reboot, when I mount the filesystem, the balance
> immediately starts again. btrfs balance cancel just hangs around with
> no visible reaction for hours.
>
> Log appended. Is there rescue?
Can't offer much help other than to recommend to *always* mount with
-o skip_balance, which IMHO should have been the default behaviour
from the beginning. Then try to balance in small increments.
-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-04 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-04 17:31 balance hangs and starts again on reboot Marc Haber
2016-03-04 18:09 ` Holger Hoffstätte [this message]
2016-03-05 14:17 ` Marc Haber
2016-03-05 15:38 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2016-03-05 17:25 ` Marc Haber
2016-03-05 18:00 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2016-03-06 6:12 ` Duncan
2016-03-04 19:08 ` Chris Murphy
2016-03-05 14:12 ` Marc Haber
2016-03-05 17:07 ` Chris Murphy
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=56D9CF63.3060603@googlemail.com \
--to=holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com \
--cc=linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mh+linux-btrfs@zugschlus.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).