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Bug FW 6.7.5 Final: Balance ends immeadiately
Hi, I manually startedcBalance, and it immeadiately completed: Log messages: Sat Jul 15 2017 23:25:22 Volume: Balance complete for volume data. Sat Jul 15 2017 23:25:17 Volume:...
Yup, you can see by the dmesg output that the NAS balanced a few chunks and thus it was not failing. At the same time your NAS is perfectly well balanced already, so it is no suprise then that a balance only takes a few seconds to run on your system.
Balance is not the same as say, a defrag or scrub. If there is hardly anything to balance - it will be super fast. But that is good that you have a well balanced volume!
Are you sure ? the time seems so small.
Anyway, if it is normal, I will accept the solution and give feedback if any issue is noted
Yup, you can see by the dmesg output that the NAS balanced a few chunks and thus it was not failing. At the same time your NAS is perfectly well balanced already, so it is no suprise then that a balance only takes a few seconds to run on your system.
Balance is not the same as say, a defrag or scrub. If there is hardly anything to balance - it will be super fast. But that is good that you have a well balanced volume!
A balance will move data in data and/or metadata chunks around to empty those chunks and return the empty chunks to unallocated space.
When the difference between the allocated space and used space is small it is well balanced. In your case 1.77TiB is both allocated and used.
If a balance is run regularly then it will complete in a much shorter time than if run once in a very long time.
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