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From: "Helmut Hullen" <Hullen@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: Btrfs balance
Date: 20 Jan 2011 14:40:00 +0100
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Hallo, Andreas,

Du meintest am 20.01.11:

> Maybe it is a very stupid question but I want to ask it anyway. In
> general, 'btrfs filesystem balance' takes very long to finish and
> produces lots of IO. So what are the classical usage scenarios, when
> it is (really) worth doing a balance?

Here (Kernel 2.6.37, btrfs git Nov. 2010): balancing two disks/ 
partitions with 2 and 1.5 TByte needs about 24 hours (CPU 1.5 GHz).

What do you mean with "lots of IO"? the messages in "/var/log/messages"  
and "/var/log/warn"?

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut