P.S. I added another virtual disk to make it happy. The problem is that I
cannot see anything critically close to be exhausted. So I have no reliable
way of monitoring and predict when the problem appears.

Thanks
Peter


On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Peter Ross <[email protected]> wrote:

> Russell Coker wrote:
> > Looks like you are running low on metadata space.  Run a balance to
> free a
> > data chunk.
>
> # btrfs balance /
> ERROR: error during balancing '/' - No space left on device
> There may be more info in syslog - try dmesg | tail
> [root@m-admin03 ~]# dmesg | tail
> ..
> [57720.728021] BTRFS info (device sda3): relocating block group 12582912
> flags 1
> [57721.462525] BTRFS info (device sda3): relocating block group 4194304
> flags 4
> [57722.195723] BTRFS info (device sda3): relocating block group 0 flags 2
> [57723.302220] BTRFS info (device sda3): 14 enospc errors during balance
>
> > The GPL vs BSD license debate has died down.  Most people who matter
> > prefer GPL while most companies prefer BSD so they can take free
> > software and make it non-free.
>
> Well, I am a sysadmin and simply interested in technology that works.
>
> Yes, Chris, CentOS7 is based on 3.10, a 2 years old kernel, but CentOS7 is
> a distribution I use now.
>
> I happily used ZFS 2 years ago, and jails, and see nothing as pale
> imitations and "magic' in the system I am using now. Obviously we cannot
> even predict anymore when your filesystems are mounted, as the
> systemd/btrfs thread illustrates.
>
> We muddle our way through, that's all. There is no beauty in it.
>
> Regards
> Peter
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Russell Coker <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 06:00:40 PM Peter Ross wrote:
>> > On CentOS7 I get "No space left on device errors" just now..
>> >
>> > [root@m-admin03 ~]# btrfs scrub start /
>> > WARNING: failed to write the progress status file: No space left on
>> device.
>> > Status recording disabled
>> > scrub started on /, fsid 25f5d19c-a4d3-4f28-9abb-699362765879 (pid=2833)
>> > [root@m-admin03 ~]# btrfs scrub status /
>> > scrub status for 25f5d19c-a4d3-4f28-9abb-699362765879
>> > no stats available
>>
>> Some of the btrfs commands write a file to disk to track the status of
>> things,
>> it's not unlike the way LVM and mdadm use files under /etc.  When there
>> is no
>> space for a small file you have bigger problems than the filesystem not
>> being
>> scrubbed.  So the first thing to do is to solve that.
>>
>> > total bytes scrubbed: 0.00 with 0 errors
>> > [root@m-admin03 ~]# btrfs filesystem df /
>> > Data, single: total=5.97GiB, used=4.45GiB
>> > System, DUP: total=8.00MiB, used=16.00KiB
>> > System, single: total=4.00MiB, used=0.00
>> > Metadata, DUP: total=341.38MiB, used=242.31MiB
>> > Metadata, single: total=8.00MiB, used=0.00
>> > GlobalReserve, single: total=96.00MiB, used=0.00
>> >
>> > Sorry, I don't understand this..
>>
>> Looks like you are running low on metadata space.  Run a balance to free a
>> data chunk.
>>
>> > As for the licensing: I could not be more bored. ZFS has a life outside
>> > Oracle.
>>
>> The GPL vs BSD license debate has died down.  Most people who matter
>> prefer
>> GPL while most companies prefer BSD so they can take free software and
>> make it
>> non-free.
>>
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>
>
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