Re: Btrfs moved my root tree off the end of the device

2011-09-08 Thread Justin Gottula
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Arne Jansen sensi...@gmx.net wrote: I think Liu Bo posted a fix for this a while ago: [PATCH] Btrfs: fix a bug of balance on full multi-disk partitions -Arne The behavior that this patch describes looks pretty much exactly like what I was seeing, although in

Btrfs moved my root tree off the end of the device

2011-09-07 Thread Justin Gottula
Hi, I recently created a Btrfs volume on top of a software (mdadm) raid5 array (since Btrfs currently lacks raid5 support at the FS level). On this 640 GB volume, I stored a ~400 GB tar file. After a couple weeks of use, I used 'btrfs defragment' on this file in an effort to (a) defrag and (b)