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@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ To rebalance data, two strategies can be used:
Garage checks whether the existing copy is in the primary directory of the slice
or in a secondary directory. If the current copy is in a secondary directory,
Garage re-writes a copy in the primary directory and deletes the one from the
- secondary directory.
+ secondary directory. This might never end up rebalancing everything if there
+ are data blocks that are only read and never written.
- Active rebalancing: an operator of a Garage node can explicitly launch a repair
procedure that rebalances the data directories, moving all blocks to their
@@ -94,7 +95,7 @@ it might still contain subdirectories, but no data files. You can check that
it contains no files using:
```bash
-find -type f /path/to/old_data
+find -type f /path/to/old_data # should not print anything
```
at which point it can be removed from the `data_dir` list in your config file.