From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Chester <somethingsome2000@gmail.com>
Cc: Miguel Garrido <miguel@mjgar.com>, Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>,
linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What are thoses [btrfs-cache-nnn] kernel threads ?
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 07:22:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305890412-sup-1052@shiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimRPE-roV8JaRhQpqQW_sMtsW7Gww@mail.gmail.com>
Excerpts from Chester's message of 2011-05-20 01:32:22 -0400:
> >
> > Out of curiosity, why isn't this done automatically as opposed to
> > having to mount with the space_cache option?
>
> The space_cache option changes the disk format. Once enabled, it will
> be permanent. The mount option gives people an option of whether they
> want to enable space_cache.. I've been using it, and it's pretty safe
> to use.
Once enabled it does stay on, and strictly speaking it does change the
disk format. But, it is perfectly safe to go back to a non-space_cache
enabled kernel and then go back into space cache. Josef set things up
so it would detect a non-space_cache mount and continue properly.
space_cache is wonderful. We did fix up a few bugs in .38 and .39 but
I'll probably have .40 enable it by default.
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-20 11:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-19 2:37 What are thoses [btrfs-cache-nnn] kernel threads ? Christian Robert
2011-05-19 18:26 ` Josef Bacik
2011-05-20 3:13 ` Miguel Garrido
2011-05-20 5:32 ` Chester
2011-05-20 11:22 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2011-05-20 12:11 ` Miguel Garrido
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