# \#btrfs

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## [Disk usage discrepancy?](https://forum.storj.io/t/disk-usage-discrepancy/24715)

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**Author:** [@kchiem](https://forum.storj.io/u/kchiem)\
**Replies:** 1177\
**Last updated:** [August 6, 2026, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/disk-usage-discrepancy/24715 "2026-08-06T22:08:13Z")

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And yet my filesystem saids 14.49TB is being used. Why don’t the dashboard’s figures even agree, and why are they both under what’s actually used?

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## [Best filesystem for storj](https://forum.storj.io/t/best-filesystem-for-storj/24784)

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**Author:** [@syncamide](https://forum.storj.io/u/syncamide)\
**Replies:** 101\
**Last updated:** [February 21, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/best-filesystem-for-storj/24784 "2025-02-21T15:06:49Z")

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Hello guys! I decided to conduct some research to choose the optimal file system in terms of the performance/cost ratio per 1 TB. The series of articles is a summary of my personal experience operating storj nodes and d…

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## [3 day power outage to node now i am failing audits](https://forum.storj.io/t/3-day-power-outage-to-node-now-i-am-failing-audits/28707)

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**Author:** [@clonea1](https://forum.storj.io/u/clonea1)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [December 4, 2024, 7:54am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/3-day-power-outage-to-node-now-i-am-failing-audits/28707 "2024-12-04T07:54:00Z")

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had several days of no power to the storage node, i am passing online status however i am in suspension currently as i am getting hammered with this error. anyway to run a job to clean up the storage or something ? or w…

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## [Nodes constantly restarting randomly few times per day last month](https://forum.storj.io/t/nodes-constantly-restarting-randomly-few-times-per-day-last-month/27259)

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**Author:** [@LordWigo](https://forum.storj.io/u/LordWigo)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [July 26, 2024, 5:04am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/nodes-constantly-restarting-randomly-few-times-per-day-last-month/27259 "2024-07-26T05:04:32Z")

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Hi all, I am facing to nodes constantly restarting randomly few times per day last month. I have checked logs during the time of restart: Docker containers does not seems to by overloaded (CPU/RAM): Here is HW …

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## [Re-create node offline](https://forum.storj.io/t/re-create-node-offline/25601)

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**Author:** [@meaverick](https://forum.storj.io/u/meaverick)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [March 22, 2024, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/re-create-node-offline/25601 "2024-03-22T04:03:41Z")

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Dear teams, after re-create new storagenode on synology Docker,it alway show offline, the config as below with error log, Could you please take a look at ? Regards, Neo sudo docker run -d --restart unless-stopped --s…

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## [How can a handful of small nodes completely trash a large array?](https://forum.storj.io/t/how-can-a-handful-of-small-nodes-completely-trash-a-large-array/24749)

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**Author:** [@Ottetal](https://forum.storj.io/u/Ottetal)\
**Replies:** 20\
**Last updated:** [February 19, 2024, 12:08pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/how-can-a-handful-of-small-nodes-completely-trash-a-large-array/24749 "2024-02-19T12:08:59Z")

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Hiya forum I have yet another technical question, regarding disk operations. I have here a screenshot of one of my Synology boxes. It hosts cold storage as a backup target, and has 4 nodes. 1 node on 4TB, which is ful…

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## [Need some tricks survive with BTRFS](https://forum.storj.io/t/need-some-tricks-survive-with-btrfs/24098)

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**Author:** [@MarcVanWijk](https://forum.storj.io/u/MarcVanWijk)\
**Replies:** 20\
**Last updated:** [October 25, 2023, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/need-some-tricks-survive-with-btrfs/24098 "2023-10-25T11:18:42Z")

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My node is offline and I need some urgent help to get it working again. Last Thursday my node began trashing. I have seen this behaviour before when there is significant free space and the system tries to service multip…

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## [Migrating a node](https://forum.storj.io/t/migrating-a-node/21312)

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**Author:** [@humbfig](https://forum.storj.io/u/humbfig)\
**Replies:** 66\
**Last updated:** [September 18, 2023, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/migrating-a-node/21312 "2023-09-18T20:17:55Z")

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Hi! The following applies mainly to a synology NAS holding a node (or more). The issue is too much CPU IO waiting leading to unresponsive NAS and too many storj lost races. Last time I checked in, someone from storj wa…

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## [Suspension decreases during migration](https://forum.storj.io/t/suspension-decreases-during-migration/23372)

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**Author:** [@lovaszl](https://forum.storj.io/u/lovaszl)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 3:42am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/suspension-decreases-during-migration/23372 "2023-07-31T03:42:13Z")

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Hello! I run my storj node in Synology docker. Until now, it ran in shr raid1 with ssd cache on 2x16TB. I broke the raid, the goal is to put the storj on a separate ext4 on one of the hdds. I started copying in putty…

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## [4 TB node has been full the past few months, still only 2.17 TBm storage paid](https://forum.storj.io/t/4-tb-node-has-been-full-the-past-few-months-still-only-2-17-tbm-storage-paid/22821)

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**Author:** [@Sfynx](https://forum.storj.io/u/Sfynx)\
**Replies:** 60\
**Last updated:** [July 30, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/4-tb-node-has-been-full-the-past-few-months-still-only-2-17-tbm-storage-paid/22821 "2023-07-30T18:12:58Z")

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The container of my storage node is indeed having 4 TB of data on it, but the payment and average disk space is 1.8 TB lower: Anybody any advice? I hope this picture makes the picture a bit more clear:

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## [“error”: “untrusted: unable to get signee: trust: rpc: tcp connector failed: rpc: dial tcp: lookup us1.storj.io: operation was canceled](https://forum.storj.io/t/error-untrusted-unable-to-get-signee-trust-rpc-tcp-connector-failed-rpc-dial-tcp-lookup-us1-storj-io-operation-was-canceled/22772)

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**Author:** [@shaltay](https://forum.storj.io/u/shaltay)\
**Replies:** 17\
**Last updated:** [June 18, 2023, 11:02am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/error-untrusted-unable-to-get-signee-trust-rpc-tcp-connector-failed-rpc-dial-tcp-lookup-us1-storj-io-operation-was-canceled/22772 "2023-06-18T11:02:29Z")

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Здравствуйте. У меня подобная проблема. Ни с того ни с сего начала перезагружаться одна нода. До этого год с лишним работала нормально. Пишет ошибку 2023-05-23T08:33:30.786+0500 ERROR piecestore download failed {“Proce…

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## [High I/O wait and disk usage](https://forum.storj.io/t/high-i-o-wait-and-disk-usage/17875)

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**Author:** [@kosti11](https://forum.storj.io/u/kosti11)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2022, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/high-i-o-wait-and-disk-usage/17875 "2022-08-11T23:50:55Z")

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Hello, I have working for 8 months my new storagenode. A someday I saw that I have high disk usage and high I/O wait. Can you help me fix this heavy load on my system? Does it affects to my node responsibility? My Synol…

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## [BTRFS vs EXT4 vs ZFS Filesystem for storj](https://forum.storj.io/t/btrfs-vs-ext4-vs-zfs-filesystem-for-storj/18069)

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**Author:** [@StoreMe](https://forum.storj.io/u/StoreMe)\
**Replies:** 16\
**Last updated:** [April 13, 2022, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/btrfs-vs-ext4-vs-zfs-filesystem-for-storj/18069 "2022-04-13T12:15:31Z")

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Hi folks, just want to ask which filesystem do you use for storj. I was using BTRF over years but this year first time watching the IO oft the HDDs with nmon. And I saw that ally ma HDD did a lot of work even when near…

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## [Meine Storj Node startet permanent neu](https://forum.storj.io/t/meine-storj-node-startet-permanent-neu/14579)

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**Author:** [@CK2011](https://forum.storj.io/u/CK2011)\
**Replies:** 24\
**Last updated:** [October 4, 2021, 6:02am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/meine-storj-node-startet-permanent-neu/14579 "2021-10-04T06:02:14Z")

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Ich bin seit über einem Jahr bei Storj als Node Operator tätig. Seit einer Woche startet meine Node (also der Docker Container in dem Storj läuft) alle paar Minuten bis Stunden ständig neu. Betriebsystem ist ein Ubuntu S…

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## [Information to SNO's regarding ZFS/btrfs vs. ext4 on spinners](https://forum.storj.io/t/information-to-snos-regarding-zfs-btrfs-vs-ext4-on-spinners/10290)

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**Author:** [@nzdk](https://forum.storj.io/u/nzdk)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/information-to-snos-regarding-zfs-btrfs-vs-ext4-on-spinners/10290 "2020-11-18T22:30:52Z")

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Hi all, My storage node wasn’t performing as it used to, and I started looking into it. I set it up 13 months ago, on 1x 3TB 7200rpm drive, to get into the platform. Today, it was simply not performing; loading the dash…

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## [\-t 300 not enough](https://forum.storj.io/t/t-300-not-enough/9062)

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**Author:** [@Toyoo](https://forum.storj.io/u/Toyoo)\
**Replies:** 24\
**Last updated:** [November 13, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/t-300-not-enough/9062 "2020-11-13T20:25:40Z")

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Hi, just a note here. The documentation says that to stop a node, SNO can do docker stop -t 300 storagenode. From my observations 300 seconds is not enough if there are very slow connections. I’ve observed node shutdowns…

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## [Node randomly restarting. Possibly high memory usage](https://forum.storj.io/t/node-randomly-restarting-possibly-high-memory-usage/8540)

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**Author:** [@Mark](https://forum.storj.io/u/Mark)\
**Replies:** 21\
**Last updated:** [August 23, 2020, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/node-randomly-restarting-possibly-high-memory-usage/8540 "2020-08-23T09:46:25Z")

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I received several uptime robot emails today informing me that my node had gone down and then back up. The node logs don’t say anything about it shutting down, but it does show when it starts back up. I checked memory …

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## [Storagenode crashed, no traffic anymore](https://forum.storj.io/t/storagenode-crashed-no-traffic-anymore/2809)

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**Author:** [@kbch](https://forum.storj.io/u/kbch)\
**Replies:** 14\
**Last updated:** [November 28, 2019, 9:35am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/storagenode-crashed-no-traffic-anymore/2809 "2019-11-28T09:35:29Z")

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My Storagenode crashed ~24h ago. There shouldn’t be any data loss because the Container host and not Storage host crashed. It’s now running again since ~24h but I still just see piecestore upload started and also no tra…
