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Re:Defrag Like It's 1993 by josefx on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:09AM (#29588913)
And my disappointment in btrfs when it reminded me of how long it took to defrag a hard drive was limitless. 100 out of 500 GB used, free disk space 0, had to spend an afternoon running rebalance with various parameters to get to a point where it could run a full rebalance without running out of memory. Of course our IT seems to love it since it comes with all possible bells and whistles so I already dread the next time it happens.
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Re:Defrag Like It's 1993 by jhoechtl on Friday December 17, 2021 @03:13AM (#29589334)
Is this anecdotal of some years ago or recent? Are they running a really old kernel? btrfs had this sorts of problems, but some major fixes in this regard have been committed like two years ago.
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Re:Defrag Like It's 1993 by josefx on Friday December 17, 2021 @04:36AM (#29589915)
The issue was earlier this year, but the systems I saw it on were probably both LTS with an older kernel.Good to know that it was fixed.
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Re:Defrag Like It's 1993 by nix23 on Friday December 17, 2021 @03:31AM (#29589460)
No probably no a old kernel....but i know like everyone btrfs...that never happened to me.
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