From: ein <ein.net@gmail.com>
To: "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com>,
Btrfs BTRFS <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Recommendations for balancing as part of regular maintenance?
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:20:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A539A3A.10107@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e370d8c9-4ff0-9ba5-2ae0-69524152c772@gmail.com>
On 01/08/2018 04:55 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:
> [...]
>
> And here's the FAQ entry:
>
> Q: Do I need to run a balance regularly?
>
> A: In general usage, no. A full unfiltered balance typically takes a
> long time, and will rewrite huge amounts of data unnecessarily. You may
> wish to run a balance on metadata only (see Balance_Filters) if you find
> you have very large amounts of metadata space allocated but unused, but
> this should be a last resort.
IHMO three more sentencens and the answer would be more useful:
1. BTRFS balance command example with note check the man first.
2. What use case may cause 'large amounts of metadata space allocated
but unused'.
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-08 15:55 Recommendations for balancing as part of regular maintenance? Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2018-01-08 16:20 ` ein [this message]
2018-01-08 16:34 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2018-01-08 18:17 ` Graham Cobb
2018-01-08 18:34 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2018-01-08 20:29 ` Martin Raiber
2018-01-09 8:33 ` Marat Khalili
2018-01-09 12:46 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2018-01-10 3:49 ` Duncan
2018-01-10 16:30 ` Tom Worster
2018-01-10 17:01 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2018-01-10 18:33 ` Tom Worster
2018-01-10 20:44 ` Timofey Titovets
2018-01-11 13:00 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2018-01-11 8:51 ` Duncan
2018-01-10 4:38 ` Duncan
2018-01-10 12:41 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2018-01-11 20:12 ` Hans van Kranenburg
2018-01-10 21:37 ` waxhead
2018-01-11 12:50 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2018-01-11 19:56 ` Hans van Kranenburg
2018-01-12 18:24 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2018-01-12 19:26 ` Tom Worster
2018-01-12 19:43 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2018-01-13 22:09 ` Chris Murphy
2018-01-15 13:43 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2018-01-15 18:23 ` Tom Worster
2018-01-16 6:45 ` Chris Murphy
2018-01-16 11:02 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2018-01-16 12:57 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-01-08 21:43 Tom Worster
2018-01-08 22:18 ` Hugo Mills
2018-01-09 12:23 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2018-01-09 14:16 ` Tom Worster
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