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Luminary

Jul 09, 2015

Aborting a balance

I'm running 6.2.2 on a RN104 with 3x3TB and scheduled a balance a couple of days ago. I had 25GB free, which seems to cause the balance to take a very long time. After about 20h the display stil...

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mdgm-ntgr

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jul 09, 2015

A balance can be cancelled but with SSH stopped and no access to the web interface there's nothing that can be done.

You had 25GB free? If there's only a small amount of space unused then it would be recommended to free up some space before running a balance if you want to run one.

mschaffl

Aspirant

Nov 02, 2015

rugene
Guide
Nov 04, 2015
similar issues with balance for me on a RN314.
I used the "btrfs fi balance status /data" command to kill the operation.
Running RAID5 xraid; 6.4.0; 4ea 4TB red drives. 2.2TB free space
Balance hangs system everytime.

I've also stopped scrub and defrag until this issue gets resolved.

not good...
- tfau
  Aspirant
  Nov 26, 2015
  Add another RN314 to the sad list of hung systems after a balance.
  
  6.4.1 can't come soon enough.
  - JennC
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Nov 26, 2015
    Hello tfau,
    
    Please try using 6.4.1-RC3 and see if the same problem.
    
    Regards,