mattekure Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 I recently added a second SSD to my cache pool. I was wondering what the recommended frequency for running btrfs balance/scrub is? Is this something I need to do weekly/monthly? Quote Link to comment
Dataone Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 btrfs-scrub(8) recommends around once a month, but less is fine. https://github.com/kdave/btrfsmaintenance is a really nice set of scripts for other distros, but you can look at the timers and etc to figure out what a good frequency is. Follwing this, btrfs-scrub & btrfs-balance are run monthly. Quote Link to comment
mattekure Posted November 30, 2019 Author Share Posted November 30, 2019 Thanks, thats helpful. I've got them both set up to run monthly via the User Scripts plugin Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 Full balance isn't really needed on latest kernels, except if adding new devices and wanting to redistribute data. Quote Link to comment
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