On 11/20/2015 12:59 PM, Hugo Mills wrote as excerpted: > Nothing actively wrong with that, no. It certainly won't break > anything. It's just rarely actually useful. The usual situation is > that you run out of one kind of storage before the other (data vs > metadata, that is), and you need to free up some allocation of one of > them so it can go to the other. This is typically too much data > allocation, and metadata has run out (so -d is more often used than > -m). > > For the "usual" case of running out of metadata allocation, you > don't actually need much space to reclaim, so -dlimit=X for small X is > an easier approach to use. Thanks Hugo for your quick reply. Alright, the look at https://github.com/kdave/btrfsmaintenance just made me think over regular balances using -*usage before one or the other space runs out (as suggested there). Best, Lukas -- 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
