On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 05:41:18PM +0000, Jameson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:28 AM Garmine 42 <mikro001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > You should not use quotas on btrfs currently. It is known to cause > > significant performance issues on the long run (and potentially has > > many undiscovered bugs). If you wish I can dig up the relevant > > discussion on the btrfs mailing list for you. > > Yes, I heard this but can't find relevant bugreports. The kernel wiki says that quotas are fully supported, at least with simplest (raid1?) setups. > > Well, without quotas, I can just expect my filesystem to fill up, again, > without warning, and completely break. I think I might just have to buy > some extra disks, and try out ZFS for myself. See this: http://marc.merlins.org/perso/btrfs/post_2014-05-04_Fixing-Btrfs-Filesystem-Full-Problems.html Basically, when your btrfs is full, just create a loopback device, add it to the array, rebalance and then remove the device. This is what I had to do this Sunday :) Cheers, -- Leonid Isaev GPG fingerprints: DA92 034D B4A8 EC51 7EA6 20DF 9291 EE8A 043C B8C4 C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
