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From: Konstantinos Skarlatos <k.skarlatos@gmail.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: ce3g8jdj@umail.furryterror.org
Subject: Adding a 4TB disk to a 2x4TB btrfs (data:single) filesystem and balancing takes extremely long (over a month). Filesystem has been deduped with bees
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2022 14:13:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8a536fe1-68bd-4136-8cfb-bd410afc5fa1@gmail.com> (raw)

Hello,
I am running btrfs on 2x 4TB HDDs (data: single, metadata: raid1) and i 
added another 4TB disk.
According to btrfs wiki i should run balance after adding the new device.
My problem is that this balance takes extremely long, it is running for 
4 days and it still has 91% left.
Is this normal, and can i do anything to fix this?

kernel is linux-5.17.1, i have also tried with 5.16 kernels.
mount options are: rw,relatime,compress-force=zstd:11,space_cache=v2
I have been using bees for dedup, but it is disabled for the balance.
I am not doing any IO on the disks, they have no smart errors, and none 
of them are SMR (2x WD40EFRX and 1x ST4000DM000)
Autodefrag is disabled, and i also have checked that the disks are in 
stable drive cages in order to be sure i have no problems with vibration.
Benchmarking them gives normal speeds. Quotas have never been enabled.

             reply	other threads:[~2022-04-01 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-01 11:13 Konstantinos Skarlatos [this message]
2022-04-01 13:17 ` Adding a 4TB disk to a 2x4TB btrfs (data:single) filesystem and balancing takes extremely long (over a month). Filesystem has been deduped with bees Hugo Mills
2022-04-03 13:43   ` Konstantinos Skarlatos
2022-04-01 14:11 ` Zygo Blaxell
2022-04-02 18:27   ` Konstantinos Skarlatos
2022-04-02 23:16     ` Zygo Blaxell

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