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From: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Swâmi Petaramesh" <swami@petaramesh.org>
Subject: Re: BTRFS fails defragging
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:18:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201302212018.49909.Martin@lichtvoll.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51263363.9020203@petaramesh.org>

Am Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2013 schrieb Swâmi Petaramesh:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal with
> # uname -r
> 3.5.0-24-generic
> 
> And it seems I cannot defrag :
> 
> # filefrag /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-24-generic
> /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-24-generic: 3 extents found
> 
> # btrfs filesystem defrag /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-24-generic
> # echo $?
> 20
> 
> # filefrag /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-24-generic
> /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-24-generic: 3 extents found
> 
> Any clue appreciated ;-)

Make sure to wait long enough or issue the "sync" command.

merkaba:/home/martin/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend> ls -lh soprano-virtuoso.db  
-rw------- 1 martin martin 1,6G Feb 21 20:10 soprano-virtuoso.db
merkaba:/home/martin/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend> date ; filefrag soprano-virtuoso.db
Do 21. Feb 20:16:27 CET 2013
soprano-virtuoso.db: 58875 extents found
merkaba:/home/martin/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend> date ; btrfs fi defrag soprano-virtuoso.db 
Do 21. Feb 20:16:39 CET 2013
merkaba:/home/martin/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend#20> date ; filefrag soprano-virtuoso.db       
Do 21. Feb 20:16:48 CET 2013
soprano-virtuoso.db: 22424 extents found
merkaba:/home/martin/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend> date ; filefrag soprano-virtuoso.db
Do 21. Feb 20:16:50 CET 2013
soprano-virtuoso.db: 22424 extents found
merkaba:/home/martin/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend> sync
merkaba:/home/martin/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend> date ; filefrag soprano-virtuoso.db
Do 21. Feb 20:16:54 CET 2013
soprano-virtuoso.db: 960 extents found
merkaba:/home/martin/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend>

(here "fragmentation" might not be real fragmentation always due to the way
LZO compression works in BTRFS, AFAIR Hugo told me)

Ciao,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-21 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-21 14:46 BTRFS fails defragging Swâmi Petaramesh
2013-02-21 15:01 ` Hugo Mills
2013-02-21 15:10   ` Swâmi Petaramesh
2013-02-21 16:10     ` Eric Sandeen
2013-02-21 17:16       ` Hugo Mills
2013-02-21 19:18 ` Martin Steigerwald [this message]

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