Re: Best Practice: Add new device to RAID1 pool

[Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 3:12 PM, waxhead <waxhead@dirtcellar.net> wrote:
>
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> Chris Murphy wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:27 AM, Cloud Admin <admin@cloud.haefemeier.eu>
>> wrote:
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>>> I am a little bit confused because the balance command is running since
>>> 12 hours and only 3GB of data are touched.
>>
>> That's incredibly slow. Something isn't right.
>>
>> Using btrfs-debug -b from btrfs-progs, I've selected a few 100% full
>> chunks.
>>
>> [156777.077378] f26s.localdomain sudo[13757]:    chris : TTY=pts/2 ;
>> PWD=/home/chris ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/btrfs balance start
>> -dvrange=157970071552..159043813376 /
>> [156773.328606] f26s.localdomain kernel: BTRFS info (device sda1):
>> relocating block group 157970071552 flags data
>> [156800.408918] f26s.localdomain kernel: BTRFS info (device sda1):
>> found 38952 extents
>> [156861.343067] f26s.localdomain kernel: BTRFS info (device sda1):
>> found 38951 extents
>>
>> That 1GiB chunk with quite a few fragments took 88s. That's 11MB/s.
>> Even for a hard drive, that's slow. I
>
> This may be a stupid question , but are your pool of butter (or BTRFS pool)
> by any chance hooked up via USB? If this is USB2.0 at 480mitb/s then it is
> about 57MB/s / 4 drives = roughly 14.25 or about 11MB/s if you shave off
> some overhead.
>

Nope, USB 3. Typically on scrubs I get 110MB/s that winds down to
60MB/s as it progresses to the slow parts of the disk.


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Chris Murphy