On Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:07:45 +0000 (UTC) Gabriel de Perthuis <g2p.code@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > I have a filesystem that has become unusable because of a balance I can't > stop. It is very close to full, and the balance is preventing me from > growing it. > > It was started like this: > sudo btrfs filesystem balance start -v -musage=60 -dusage=60 /srv/backups > > It has been stuck at 0% across reboots and kernel upgrades (currently on > 3.8.1), and cancelling it had no effect: > > Balance on '/srv/backups' is running > 0 out of about 5 chunks balanced (95 considered), 100% left > > According to atop it is writing but not reading anything. > Unmounting never terminates, so does remounting ro, the only way to > temporarilly kill it is to reboot. SIGKILL has no effect either. Is there > *any* way I can get rid of it? > > -- > 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 Mount with the "skip_balance" option https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Mount_options then you can issue "btrfs fi balance cancel" and it will succeed. -- With respect, Roman
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