Re: RAID10 Balancing Request for Comments and Advices

2015-06-18 Thread Duncan
Vincent Olivier posted on Wed, 17 Jun 2015 09:46:50 -0400 as excerpted: On Jun 16, 2015, at 7:58 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Yes. GlobalReserve is for short-term btrfs-internal use, reserved for times when btrfs needs to (temporarily) allocate some space in ordered to free

Re: RAID10 Balancing Request for Comments and Advices

2015-06-17 Thread Duncan
Hugo Mills posted on Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:27:36 + as excerpted: Yes, on this 80% full 6x4TB RAID10 -dusage=15 took 2 seconds and relocated 0 out of 3026 chunks”. Out of curiosity, I had to use -dusage=90 to have it relocate only 1 chunk and it took les than 30 seconds. So I put a

Re: RAID10 Balancing Request for Comments and Advices

2015-06-17 Thread Vincent Olivier
On Jun 17, 2015, at 9:27 AM, Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 09:13:08AM -0400, Vincent Olivier wrote: On Jun 16, 2015, at 8:14 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: On a current

Re: RAID10 Balancing Request for Comments and Advices

2015-06-17 Thread Vincent Olivier
On Jun 16, 2015, at 8:14 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net 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

Re: RAID10 Balancing Request for Comments and Advices

2015-06-17 Thread Hugo Mills
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 09:13:08AM -0400, Vincent Olivier wrote: On Jun 16, 2015, at 8:14 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: On a current kernel unlike older ones, btrfs actually automates entirely

Re: RAID10 Balancing Request for Comments and Advices

2015-06-17 Thread Vincent Olivier
On Jun 16, 2015, at 7:58 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Vincent Olivier posted on Tue, 16 Jun 2015 09:34:29 -0400 as excerpted: On Jun 16, 2015, at 8:25 AM, Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 08:09:17AM -0400, Vincent Olivier wrote: My first

Re: RAID10 Balancing Request for Comments and Advices

2015-06-16 Thread Vincent Olivier
On Jun 16, 2015, at 8:25 AM, Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 08:09:17AM -0400, Vincent Olivier wrote: btrfs filesystem df” gives : Data, RAID10: total=7.08TiB, used=7.02TiB Data, single: total=8.00MiB, used=0.00B System, RAID10: total=7.88MiB,

Re: RAID10 Balancing Request for Comments and Advices

2015-06-16 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 08:09:17AM -0400, Vincent Olivier wrote: Hello, I have a Centos 7 machine with the latest EPEL kernel-ml (4.0.5) with a 6-disk 4TB HGST RAID10 btrfs volume. With the following mount options : noatime,compress=zlib,space_cache 0 2 btrfs filesystem df” gives :

Re: RAID10 Balancing Request for Comments and Advices

2015-06-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net 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

Re: RAID10 Balancing Request for Comments and Advices

2015-06-16 Thread Duncan
Vincent Olivier posted on Tue, 16 Jun 2015 09:34:29 -0400 as excerpted: On Jun 16, 2015, at 8:25 AM, Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 08:09:17AM -0400, Vincent Olivier wrote: My first question is this : is it normal to have “single” blocks ? Why not only