here is some discussion about btrfs-balance: https://github.com/firehol/netdata/issues/3203 btrfs-balance is very intensive operation and it's completely situational .. doing that at weekly basis as generic default for everybody who has btrfs is utterly and painfully wrong !!! moreover, in this scope I can realize that it also significantly increases harddrive utilization decreasing the hardrive lifetime, making softerrors just killers and triggering not healthy drives to fail earlier and suddenly in the other words, this hammer-style generic default is wrong and insane .. it's human-factor bug .. I wonder how it could sneak into the distro .. let's please find another solution to this .. regards, daniel