(In reply to Edmund Nadolski from comment #101) > [���] > I am restoring the previous status as I am not clear of the justification to > re-open -- considering that the indicated patches evidently were not even > run, it is not shown that a problem still exists. > > These patches have demonstrated a 50% improvement in btrfs backref > performance, so if further symptoms are observed there may well be other > causes (not necessarily even in the fs - as you mention the whole system > would need to be looked at). In that case the best way forward is to please > open a new BZ including all relevant info so that it can be properly > investigated (and without potential obfuscation from the previous issue). Errr, I am not sure what your intention is. I am pretty sure that I run a kernel with the patches you mentioned checking with `rpm -q --changelog kernel-default`. As I stated I think your contributions improved the situation. Ok, I don't want to annoy you so I created another bug for the "btrfs maintenance scripts review": https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1063638