I was told a while ago that rebalancing could get into pathological cases fairly easily (on openSUSE we used to run a rebalance in a cron job and it turns out t

I was told a while ago that rebalancing could get into pathological cases fairly easily (on openSUSE we used to run a rebalance in a cron job and it turns out this would grind machines to a halt). I still use btrfs and haven't had this issue for several years so maybe the issue has been resolved? I'm not sure what the resolution might have been.