Hmm, there seems to be a very very long list of "btrfs: found 1 extents" messages and nothing else in between them.
Why would deleting large files help? I don't want to delete files on my server unless I have no other option. — Mark Rada [email protected] On 2010-03-18, at 11:19 PM, Yan, Zheng wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Mark Rada <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi devs, >> >> I've been using btrfs on my file server since 2.6.32 and after upgrading to >> .33 I noticed that rebalancing took way longer than before. >> >> I have a 5 disk array used for a btrfs md setup, different hard drive sizes, >> brands, and interfaces. >> >> The last time I rebalanced I was using about 800GB of space on the 4.6TB >> array, and I started before I went to sleep and it was done when I woke up. >> >> I'm in the middle of a rebalance right now, currently using 950GB, and it >> has been a full day and the rebalancing is not done yet. Is this an expected >> change? Is there any way to tell how much longer it will take? Do you need >> to know more info about the setup? >> > > I guess it enters infinite loops. you can check it by checking if > there are a lots of > repeats messages in the kernel log. If it is true, you can try > deleting some large > files in that FS. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
