On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Duncan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On a current kernel unlike older ones, btrfs actually automates entirely
> empty chunk reclaim, so this problem doesn't occur anything close to near
> as often as it used to.  However, it's still possible to have mostly but
> not entirely empty chunks that btrfs won't automatically reclaim.  A
> balance can be used to rewrite and combine these mostly empty chunks,
> reclaiming the space saved.  This is what Hugo was recommending.

Yes, as little as a -dusage=5 (data chunks that are 5% or less full)
can clear the problem and is very fast, seconds. Possibly a bit
longer, many seconds o single digit minutes is -dusage=15. I haven't
done a full balance in forever.


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Chris Murphy
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