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UTSW-TX
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Feb 26, 2018
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ReadyNAS 316 out of memory during Balance

ReadyNAS 316 6.9.2 RAID 5  Had a 11TB Lun with 1.7TB free space / 2 recent snapshots using about 5.7TB Seemed like the snapshots were taking up a lot of space so I ran a Balance operation to see ...
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    UTSW-TX
    Apr 05, 2018

    I just want to follow up with my solution in case this helps anyone in the future. My data was  intact on the iSCSI target and I disabled snapshots. I was unable to delete the existing snapshots through the web interface so my available space was still less than 20%. I used  btrfs commands to find and delete those snapshots, rebooted and I am happy to report I have recovered all the space formerly used by the snapshots. The NAS has been stable and running for several weeks now. I appreciate the advice I was provided here and I found my solution from reading some of the other community posts.   

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