From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephane Chazelas Subject: Re: cloning single-device btrfs file system onto multi-device one Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 12:57:32 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: cwillu Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: 2011-03-28 14:17:48 +0100, Stephane Chazelas: [...] > So here is how I transferred a 6TB btrfs on one 6TB raid5 device > (on host src) over the network onto a btrfs on 3 3TB hard drives [...] > I then did a btrfs fi balance again and let it run through. However here is > what I get: [...] Sorry, it didn't run through and it is still running (after 9 days) and there are indications it could still be running 8 years from now (see other thread). There hasn't been any change in the amount of free space reported by df since the beginning of the balance (there still are 2TB missing). Cheers, Stephane