Re: Metadata about to fill up, how to make it bigger next time?

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AWESOME. Thanks so much for getting back to me so quickly.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Sean Greenslade
<sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 04:45:09PM -0700, Anand Patil wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> When I run btrfs fi df /path/to/fs, I see:
>>
>> Data, single: total=53.01GiB, used=51.79GiB
>> System, DUP: total=32.00MiB, used=16.00KiB
>> Metadata, DUP: total=16.00GiB, used=14.72GiB
>>
>> My most pressing question is, does that metadata line really mean that
>> the filesystem is going to become unusable soon?
>
> No. If you total up your allocations, you will notice that you have
> ~69GiB allocated, far shy of your total 1000GiB available. BTRFS
> allocates in chunks as needed, so once it needs more space for metadata,
> it will allocate some. You only get into trouble if there is no free
> space to allocate from, and you are far from having that issue.
>
> --Sean
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