ok thanks I have launched it (in a tmux session), after 5 minutes the command did not return yet, but dmesg and btrfs balance status /array/mount/point report it in progress (0%). Is it normal? Il giorno lun 17 feb 2020 alle ore 14:55 Swâmi Petaramesh <swami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: > > On 2020-02-17 14:50, Menion wrote: > > Is it ok to run it on a mounted filesystem with concurrent read and > > write operations? > > Yes. Please check man btrfs-balance. > > All such BTRFS operations are to be run on live, mounted filesystems. > > Performance will suffer and it might be long though. > > > Also, since the number of HDD is 5, how this "raid1" scheme is deployed? > > BTRFS will manage storing 2 copies of every metadata block on 2 > different disks, and will choose how by itself. > > ॐ > > -- > Swâmi Petaramesh <swami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> PGP 9076E32E >
