Re: btrfs balance to add new drive taking ~60 hours, no progress?

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On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 6:38 PM Rich Rauenzahn <rrauenza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...but that's what I'd expect the balance to do?  If Block (Chunk?) A
> is on, say device 1 (4TB) and device 2 (2TB), why wouldn't it move
> Block A to the new drive from device 1 or 2 in order to free up space
> and balance/spread out usage across the drives?  Is that not what
> balance's purpose is?   Or is free space required on 1 or 2 in order
> to move the allocation to the new drive?

Am I just not taking COW into account?  It rewrites the chunk to
reallocate so needs two destinations?  There is no "move"?



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