[arch-general] can't balance full btrfs raid6 filesystem

[Jameson]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:28 AM Garmine 42 <mikro001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22 February 2016 at 17:22, Jameson <imntreal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 6:36 AM Guus Snijders <gsnijders at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Op 20 feb. 2016 16:06 schreef "Jameson Pugh" <imntreal at gmail.com>:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Alistair Grant <
> akgrant0710 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> On 20 February 2016 at 02:38, Jameson Pugh <imntreal at gmail.com>
> 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.
>

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.

Jameson