Hallo, Andreas, Du meintest am 20.01.11:
> Maybe it is a very stupid question but I want to ask it anyway. In > general, 'btrfs filesystem balance' takes very long to finish and > produces lots of IO. So what are the classical usage scenarios, when > it is (really) worth doing a balance? Here (Kernel 2.6.37, btrfs git Nov. 2010): balancing two disks/ partitions with 2 and 1.5 TByte needs about 24 hours (CPU 1.5 GHz). What do you mean with "lots of IO"? the messages in "/var/log/messages" and "/var/log/warn"? Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
