From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qt0-f178.google.com ([209.85.216.178]:36002 "EHLO mail-qt0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750812AbeAPLCV (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2018 06:02:21 -0500 Received: by mail-qt0-f178.google.com with SMTP id a16so17712484qtj.3 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2018 03:02:21 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <3BF0F2D0-AC05-4EF9-A159-7DBF5A42A79C@thefsb.org> From: Andrei Borzenkov Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:02:20 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Recommendations for balancing as part of regular maintenance? To: Chris Murphy Cc: Tom Worster , "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" , Btrfs BTRFS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: ... >> >> Unless some better fix is in the works, this _should_ be a systemd unit or >> something. Until then, please put it in FAQ. > > At least openSUSE has a systemd unit for a long time now, but last > time I checked (a bit over a year ago) it's disabled by default. Why? > It is now enabled by default on Tumbleweed and hence likely on SLE/Leap 15. > And insofar as I'm aware, openSUSE users aren't having big problems > related to lack of balancing, they have problems due to the lack of > balancing combined with schizo snapper defaults, which are these days > masked somewhat by turning on quotas so snapper can be more accurate > about cleaning up. > Not only that but also making snapshot policy less aggressive - now (in Tumbleweed/Leap 42.3) periodical snapshots are turned off by default, only configuration changes via YaST/package updates via zypper trigger snapshot creation.