Multi device BTRFS filesystem with disk of different size

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Hi @shocker,

I simply wanted to chip in on your question related to quotas:

@shocker

I’m with the stable channel, disabling quotas is a gui feature? Or need to change it in fstab?

Yes, it is a GUI feature, that you can find on the Pools list page, as well as on each pool’s detail page. You can turn them ON or OFF directly from there. See the screenshots provided by @phillxnet in the link below:

Painfully slow rebalance/RAID conversion

@Noggin Hello again. Pretty much yes, especially the raid 5/6 variants can be extra slow. Also note that the btrfs parity raid levels of 5 and 6 are not generally recommended for production use. Though I expect you know this already. The main slow down in almost all cases is quotas and if you are running any more recent stable subscription you can disable quotas. But all our current testing variants (now older) will suffer Web-UI breakage if quotas are disabled. Quotas disabled state will rem…

Hope this helps,