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BTRFS maintenance with SSD's
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I'd mostly focus on scrub, but I'll also recommend that you keep an eye on your unallocated blocks, running out of them can get you into out-of-space situations that are non-trivial to fix. My general recommendation is about 5G per device, that should give it enough breathing room that it won't
-ENOSPC
on most workloads. Also, please note that unallocated space is a subset of free space, that is, all unallocated space is free space but the inverse isn't true.Getting more unallocated space is as easy as running a balance with a filter, say "
btrfs balance start -dusage=10 /mountpoint
". Just don't balance metadata unless you want to convert it.Regarding defrag, I still defrag databases, system journal files, etc, even on SSDs. Those workloads tend to cause a lot of fragmentation that can impact your performance (try reading your
journalctl
logs before and after a defrag, as an example).