On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 12:30:02 -0500 Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So... I freely admit I have not looked closely at btrfs in some time, > so I could be out of date (and my apologies if so). One issue that I > have seen mentioned as an issue within the last week is still the > problem of running out of space when it still looks like there's > space free. I didn't read the responses, so not sure of the > resolution, but I remember that being a "thing" with btrfs. Is that > still the case? What are the causes, and if so, how can we keep from > getting a lot of the same question on mailing lists/forums/etc.? Yes, it happened to me last week. The workstation has been upgraded since F25 and is now at F31. A yum update last week ran a restorecon -r / which filled up the filesystem and RAM and swap. The 460 GB filesystem had about 140GB of real data, 100 GB of data bloat from underfull blocks, and the rest (200GB) was metadata. I had to boot from a live USB and run btrfs balance to free up the bloat. I expect to reformat it to ext4 when the quarantine is over. This is my last BTRFS filesystem. One was on a laptop hard disk that was painfully slow, especially when compared with it's ext4 twin sitting next to it. It was reformatted to ext4. I also had a BTRFS RAID 0 hard disk array. It was also slow and also ended up needing rescue. I converted it over to xfs on MD raid and it's been faster and perfectly reliable ever since. While I like subvolumes and snapshots, I find the maintenance, reliability, and performance overhead to be not worth it. Not recommended. Jim _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
