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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: defragmenting non-files only
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:33:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250727203327.M348733@dcvr> (raw)

I'm wondering how much fragmentation affects users with large
active Maildirs where files are frequently created and removed.

I'm avoiding a blanket `btrfs fi defrag -r` to reduce storage
wear for files which won't live long.

So some questions:

1. how to monitor fragmentation of subvolume/extent tree or
   anything else which filefrag(8) doesn't seem to report
   fragmentation for?

2. does `btrfs fi defrag $DIR' work only for that directory?
   In other words, can I `btrfs fi defrag $TOPLEVEL_DIR` and
   expect subdirectories to be defragmented?

   Or should I do:

	find $TOPLEVEL_DIR -type d -print0 | xargs -0 btrfs fi defrag
   ?

Thanks.

                 reply	other threads:[~2025-07-27 20:40 UTC|newest]

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