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

[Jameson]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 1:43 PM Leonid Isaev <leonid.isaev at jila.colorado.edu>
wrote:

> 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 :)
>

I don't know if you saw the beginning of the thread, but what started this
whole mess was I allowed a raid6 btrfs filesystem to fill up, and couldn't
balance it even after adding a real disk. (I tried a loopback device
first.)