On Mon, 5 May 2014 14:36:09 Calvin Walton wrote: > The standard response on the mailing list for this issue is to > temporarily add an additional device to the filesystem (even e.g. a 4GB > USB flash drive is often enough) - this will add space to allocate a few > new chunks, allowing the balance to proceed. You can remove the extra > device after the balance completes.
I once had a situation where adding a new device failed due to lack of space. That was after I had tried to balance without adding a new device and to remove snapshots. http://etbe.coker.com.au/2014/04/26/btrfs-status-april-2014/ Recently kernel 3.14 allowed fixing a metadata space error that seemed to be impossible to solve with 3.13. So it's possible that some of my other problems with a lack of metadata space could have been solved with kernel 3.14 too. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ -- 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
