From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail02.iobjects.de ([188.40.134.68]:52499 "EHLO mail02.iobjects.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750804AbcCEPjA (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2016 10:39:00 -0500 Subject: Re: balance hangs and starts again on reboot To: Marc Haber , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org References: <20160304173125.GA1902@torres.zugschlus.de> <56D9CF63.3060603@googlemail.com> <20160305141707.GC1902@torres.zugschlus.de> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Holger_Hoffst=c3=a4tte?= Message-ID: <56DAFD91.2090805@googlemail.com> Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 16:38:57 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160305141707.GC1902@torres.zugschlus.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 03/05/16 15:17, Marc Haber wrote: >> Then try to balance in small increments. > > -dusage=5 and incrementing? Or what do you mean with "in small > increments"? Exactly, yes. Sorry for not being more clear. FWIW I've been balancing a lot recently (both for stress testing and cleaning up a few filesystems) and have never run into this particular stall, but only ever do filtered balances. Also I wouldn't be surprised at all if this is yet another problem where md does something in a way that btrfs doesn' expect, and things go wrong. -h