From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from magic.merlins.org ([209.81.13.136]:60385 "EHLO mail1.merlins.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932510AbeFRNA7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2018 09:00:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 06:00:55 -0700 From: Marc MERLIN To: Linux fs Btrfs Message-ID: <20180618130055.3rzngk5a5sktfp7p@merlins.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: btrfs balance did not progress after 12H Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: So, I ran this: gargamel:/mnt/btrfs_pool2# btrfs balance start -dusage=60 -v . & [1] 24450 Dumping filters: flags 0x1, state 0x0, force is off DATA (flags 0x2): balancing, usage=60 gargamel:/mnt/btrfs_pool2# while :; do btrfs balance status .; sleep 60; done 0 out of about 0 chunks balanced (0 considered), -nan% left Balance on '.' is running 0 out of about 73 chunks balanced (2 considered), 100% left Balance on '.' is running After about 20mn, it changed to this: 1 out of about 73 chunks balanced (6724 considered), 99% left Balance on '.' is running Now, 12H later, it's still there, only 1 out of 73. gargamel:/mnt/btrfs_pool2# btrfs fi show . Label: 'dshelf2' uuid: 0f1a0c9f-4e54-4fa7-8736-fd50818ff73d Total devices 1 FS bytes used 12.72TiB devid 1 size 14.55TiB used 13.81TiB path /dev/mapper/dshelf2 gargamel:/mnt/btrfs_pool2# btrfs fi df . Data, single: total=13.57TiB, used=12.60TiB System, DUP: total=32.00MiB, used=1.55MiB Metadata, DUP: total=121.50GiB, used=116.53GiB GlobalReserve, single: total=512.00MiB, used=848.00KiB kernel: 4.16.8 Is that expected? Should I be ready to wait days possibly for this balance to finish? Thanks, Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP 7F55D5F27AAF9D08