Added Disk - Rebalance doesn't seem to be happening

[phillxnet (Philip Guyton)]

@HarryHUK Thanks for the details report and status update.
Re:

@HarryHUK

Would it be worth upgrading to the latest 4.0 RC? Is it at least as stable as 3.9.2-57 on 4.12 kernel?

Take a look at my recent response to a similar question from @Noggin recently:

System unresponsive

@Noggin Sorry I’ve not got much time on this one but re: Quite possibly. You still need to scrub the pool, as you tried but I suspect you have either bad PSU or bad ram. Investigate those before you try anything else at the OS level as with bad hardware all OS/fs stuff is essentially doomed. Not necessarily. I would say if you don’t need AD then definitely go with the openSUSE as it’s btrfs core and kernel are years newer and given btrfs has seen some significant imporovements in this time I…

@phillxnet

Am I correct in assuming that CentOS is more stable than OpenSuse?

Not necessarily. I would say if you don’t need AD then definitely go with the openSUSE as it’s btrfs core and kernel are years newer and given btrfs has seen some significant imporovements in this time I would definitely go for the openSUSE variant via the DIY installer build method:

And the following forum thread references the changes made from 3.9.2-57 to 4.0.4:

BETA "Built on openSUSE" Testing Channel Changelog

I am delighted, and somewhat relieved, to finally announce after more than 2 years of transition from our CentOS base, our first BETA release within our “Built on openSUSE” only testing channel. We are, as yet, not quite at feature parity with our prior CentOS variant (Stable Channel) but getting very close. The intention is to finally offer a Stable Channel rpm for our “Built on openSUSE” rpms once we have this final beta testing phase completed successfully. As always there are wrinkles and o…

Hope that helps.