From: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Swâmi Petaramesh" <swami@petaramesh.org>
Subject: Re: Does defragmenting even work
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:35:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201302281635.29702.Martin@lichtvoll.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <512F6B30.1060409@petaramesh.org>
Am Donnerstag, 28. Februar 2013 schrieb Swâmi Petaramesh:
> BTW...
>
> I'm not even sure that "btrfs filesystem defrag <somefile>" actually
> does anything...
>
> If I run "filefrag <somefile>" afterwards, it typically shows the same
> number of fragments that it did prior to running defrag...
>
> I'm not sure about how it actually works and what I should expect...
Again:
Make sure that you run "sync" before looking at the extent state with
filefrag -v
btrfs filesystem defrag may not have *immediate* effect.
I explained and demonstrated it in a response to you in the other thread
that has been about this.
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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-28 14:35 Does defragmenting even work Swâmi Petaramesh
2013-02-28 14:44 ` cwillu
2013-02-28 15:00 ` Calvin Walton
2013-02-28 15:00 ` Hugo Mills
2013-02-28 15:16 ` Swâmi Petaramesh
2013-02-28 15:35 ` Martin Steigerwald [this message]
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