On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:02:03PM +0100, Andreas Philipp wrote: > Hi all, > > During a btrfs filesystem balance there are lines like the following > one in dmesg > btrfs: relocating block group 2122280075264 flags 9 > Since the "big" number is strictly decreasing, I wonder whether this > can be used as some progress counter? For example, > do I get something like a percentage of what has been done/balanced by > the following formula: > (h-l)/h > where h is the highest, i.e. first, value and l is the last, i.e. > smallest, value? The patches have been posted to the list, although I'm not sure what their current status is [1]. If you feel like it, apply and test them, any feedback is more than welcome. [1] - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/7487/ > Just for interest: There are two types of these lines appearing. One > type with 'flags 9' and one with 'flags 20'. Do the first ones refer > to block groups holding metadata and the second ones to block groups > holding data or is it totally different (and more complicated)? Yes, you are right. 9 designates a raid0 data block group and 20 means a raid1 metadata group. > Thanks, > Andreas Philipp Thanks, Ilya -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
