Our backup server btrfs hdd hat failures some week ago because metadata space was full, a regular "btrfs balance" could have saved it 🥲
So as a proposal: Adding a btrfs.autoBalance option to #NixOS 🧪 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/540675
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