But 5000 snapshots? Why? Are you *TRYING* to test btrfs until it breaks, or TRYING to demonstrate a balance taking an entire year?
Remember a given btrfs filesystem is not necessarily a backup destination for data from one source.
It can be, say, 30 or 60 daily snapshots, plus several monthly, for each data source * number of data sources.
So while it probably will make a difference (5000 snapshots from one source, vs 5000 snapshots made from many sources) for balance times, I wouldn't call a large number of snapshots that unusual.
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