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Piglet
Jul 09, 2015Luminary
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...
mdgm-ntgr
Jul 09, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
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.
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.
- mschafflNov 02, 2015Aspirant
- rugeneNov 04, 2015Guide
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...
- tfauNov 26, 2015Aspirant
Add another RN314 to the sad list of hung systems after a balance.
6.4.1 can't come soon enough.
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