From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Subject: Re: Balancing takes "forever" Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 15:59:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: On 07/02/2011 01:47 AM, cwillu wrote: > > Balance currently rewrites everything, and does it in a > not-terribly-efficient way. It's probably done by now (8 hours since > your message), which isn't unusual. There's some improvements in the > pipeline, but they're not in a released kernel yet. Thanks. That explains time used on this. It ended up taking around two hours. It also raises another question: Since I enabled compression after having used the file system for a while will all files that aren't compressed be compressed during the full balance process? > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- //Christian