Re: Recommendations for balancing as part of regular maintenance?

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On 01/08/2018 04:55 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:
> [...]
> 
> And here's the FAQ entry:
> 
> Q: Do I need to run a balance regularly?
> 
> A: In general usage, no. A full unfiltered balance typically takes a
> long time, and will rewrite huge amounts of data unnecessarily. You may
> wish to run a balance on metadata only (see Balance_Filters) if you find
> you have very large amounts of metadata space allocated but unused, but
> this should be a last resort.

IHMO three more sentencens and the answer would be more useful:
1. BTRFS balance command example with note check the man first.
2. What use case may cause 'large amounts of metadata space allocated
but unused'.


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