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renordw

Member

From: New Mexico

Registered: 2018-03-04

Posts: 56

Balancing on BTRFS SSD

I am wondering something kind of simple, but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere.

Do you have to balance a BTRFS (SSD) drive immediately after installing an OS? I am just looking for best practices for future reference. I have a relatively new install of Arch (~1 week), on a drive with this configuration, and it was just running like garbage until I did this. Is the speed increase in my head or does the BTRFS system actually require you to do this?

My SSD has 250 GB on it, if that matters.

ratcheer

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Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 924

Re: Balancing on BTRFS SSD

I balance all of my btrfs filesystems once per week with options -dusage=70 -musage=70. I am assured this is overkill, but I do it anyway. I have my filesystems on both SSDs and HDDs.

Tim

rdeckard

Wiki Maintainer

Registered: 2015-01-28

Posts: 137

Re: Balancing on BTRFS SSD

I am wondering something kind of simple, but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere.

Do you have to balance a BTRFS (SSD) drive immediately after installing an OS? I am just looking for best practices for future reference. I have a relatively new install of Arch (~1 week), on a drive with this configuration, and it was just running like garbage until I did this. Is the speed increase in my head or does the BTRFS system actually require you to do this?

My SSD has 250 GB on it, if that matters.

How did you install Arch? What's your drive configuration (i.e. what kind of RAID, etc.)?