Re: Settings compression for a filesystem

[Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Forza - 04.11.21, 16:14:31 CET:
> You can use `btrfs property set <file> compression zstd`[1] on
> directories and files. This enables compression for any new writes to
> those directories and files. If you set compression on a directory,
> any new files and directories will inherit the property, while
> existing files and directories won't.
> 
> After mounting your disks you can use find to set compression
> recursively:
> 
> # find /media/btrfs/ -exec btrfs prop set {} compression zstd \;

So it just inherits to the newly created files and directories in that 
directory directly.

Ah, I see… then in case I set it on the root inode of a new empty 
filesystem it just works, otherwise… I'd need to use find unless I choose 
to add an entry for each of the disks.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin