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fg.space.member.nearlyFull: Constituent 1317 in FlexGroup
Getting this error in Events for several flexgroups.

I've familiarized myself with checking for FlexGroup imbalances in System
Manager and from the CLI.

Since upgrading to 9.13.1 I see there are options in SM and the CLI to
"rebalance" an FG.

But launching a rebalance never seems to finish. The default is to give it
six hours before timing out. It then gives up with no work done.

Right now I'm running it on a ~8TB FG with 12 Constituent Volumes, ranging
from 122GiB to 2.44TiB in size. It's been running for over two weeks now
and it's still "Scanning" with 0 bytes moved. I think I gave it 60 days.

Imbalance Percentage: 43%
Moved Data Size: -
Maximum Constituent Imbalance Percentage: 344%
Rebalance Start Time: Thu Aug 10 12:30:37 2023
Rebalance Stop Time: -
Rebalance Runtime: 428h12m10s
Rebalance Maximum Runtime: 1440h0m0s
Maximum Imbalance Threshold per Constituent: 20%
Minimum Imbalance Threshold per Constituent: 5%
Maximum Concurrent File Moves per Constituent: 25
Minimum File Size: 100MB
Exclude Files Stuck in Snapshot Copies: true

scarab::>



Is this new "rebalance" feature just vaporware?