On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:09:47PM +0000, Kline, Matthew wrote:
> > Post your "btrfs fi df" for the filesystem.
> >
> > In my experience it looks like the conversion may designate large portions 
> > of data as "metadata" for whatever reason.
> >
> > A way to clean this up is to run
> >
> >  btrfs fi balance start -musage=5 -dusage=5 /path
> >
> > try repeating this again and again increasing the value gradually from 5 to
> > 50-70 in steps of 5 or 10.
> 
> Data, single: total=44.00GiB, used=43.37GiB
> System, single: total=32.00MiB, used=12.00KiB
> Metadata, single: total=2.00GiB, used=876.84MiB
> GlobalReserve, single: total=296.00MiB, used=0.00B
> 
> Total partition size is 322 GB, as given by `parted -l` (I misspoke in the 
> last email - the drive is only 14% full)

   Yeah, this smells like the known bug that's been on josef's hitlist
for months now. He keeps getting side-tracked by data-corruption bugs,
so it's not been fixed yet, unfortunately. The only known solution to
date is, as you've found, remaking the FS from scratch and restoring
from backups.

   Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

   Hugo.

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