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From: Eric Griffith <egriffith92@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to remount btrfs without compression?
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:54:17 -0500
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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.