Re: btrfs freezing on writes

[kjansen387 <kjansen387@gmail.com>]

OK thanks. I did try 2g on top of 172g, that didn't work, but after 
playing with 'limit' it did, all disks now have 3GB metadata.

On 11-Apr-20 22:21, Zygo Blaxell wrote:

> The purpose of resize -2g was to make a little less unallocated space
> on one drive compared to all the others, starting with all the drives
> having equal unallocated space.  The purpose of resize -172g was to
> make the extra unallocated space on sdd go away, so it would be equal to
> the other 3 drives.  You have to do _both_ of those before the balance.
> Or just add the two numbers, i.e. resize -174g.
> 
> If you really want to be sure, resize by -200g (far more than necessary),
> then balance start -mlimit=4,devid=4.  The balance is "I know there are
> exactly 5 block groups now, and I want to leave exactly one behind,"
> and the resize is "I want no possibility of new block groups on sdd for
> some time."
>