From: Dmitry Olenin <dolenin@parallels.com>
To: <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to remount btrfs without compression?
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 17:03:39 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EBA33DB.2070409@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j9db98$gbt$1@dough.gmane.org>
On 11/09/2011 04:48 PM, Lubos Kolouch wrote:
> Sorry for possibly OT question - when I have historical btrfs system
> mounted with zlib compression,
>
> can I remount it with lzo ? What will happen? Will the COW be broken
> and the files taking duplicate space? Or will the Universe explode and
> be replaced with something even more bizzare?
Hello Lubos
If you have a kernel that supports lzo (don't quite remember when it got
in), why can't you?
Absolutely nothing will happen, and only the new/updated files will be
with lzo compression. You can remount on the fly switching b/w the two
compression options without any problems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-09 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-07 0:53 How to remount btrfs without compression? dima
2011-11-07 12:19 ` Martin Steigerwald
2011-11-08 0:55 ` dima
2011-11-08 1:06 ` Eric Griffith
2011-11-08 1:52 ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2011-11-08 1:54 ` Eric Griffith
2011-11-08 2:00 ` dima
2011-11-08 15:01 ` Chris Mason
2011-11-08 15:12 ` Chris Mason
2011-11-09 1:01 ` dima
2011-11-09 7:48 ` Lubos Kolouch
2011-11-09 8:03 ` Dmitry Olenin [this message]
2011-11-10 6:57 ` Lubos Kolouch
2011-11-10 7:04 ` Dmitry Olenin
2011-11-09 8:04 ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2011-11-09 13:01 ` Chris Mason
2011-11-10 0:11 ` David Sterba
2011-11-10 2:23 ` dima
2011-11-11 13:29 ` dima
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