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On 22/08/12 17:42, David Sterba wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 07:23:48AM -0400, Calvin Walton wrote:
>> A patch to add support for `btrfs fi defrag -c none <file>` or so would
>> make this easier, and shouldn't be to hard to do :)
> 
> This one is on my list of 'nice to have', it's needed to extend the
> ioctl to understand 'none' as to actually use no compression during the
> defrag, while currently it means 'whatever compression the file has
> set'.
> 

Thanks for all the feedback about this, I've tried to gather the
responses into the FAQ:

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#Interaction_with_partitions.2C_device_managers_and_logical_volumes