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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: dima <dolenin@parallels.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to remount btrfs without compression?
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 10:01:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111108150151.GA4954@shiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EB88D4A.5050908@parallels.com>

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 11:00:42AM +0900, dima wrote:
> On 11/08/2011 10:54 AM, Eric Griffith wrote:
> >On 11/7/2011 8:52 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> >>On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Eric Griffith<egriffith92@gmail.com>
> >>wrote:
> >>>Edit your
> >>>fstab, remove the compress flag, reboot. Tell btrfs to rebalance the
> >>>system,
> >>>reboot again. And I -THINK- that'll decompress all the files
> >>
> >>I think the original question was how to force uncompressed mode,
> >>whether specific to a file or to a whole filesystem, without having to
> >>reboot :)
> >>
> >>AFAIK there's no way to do that.
> >>
> >
> >Whoops! Misunderstood the question haha. Yeah, as far as decompressing
> >just a single file; from what I've read, thats impossible.
> 
> 
> Eric, Fajar,
> Thanks. Understood.
> 
> Yes, it is possible to remove the compress flag from fstab, reboot
> and even do not do any defragmentation/rebalancing - just re-save
> the file and it will be saved uncompressed. This works. But only
> with reboot...

chattr -c on the file should work (followed by defrag or rewriting the
file).  I just retested and it seems to be broken right now.

I'll track it down.

-chris


  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-08 15:01 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 [this message]
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
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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