From: dima <dolenin@parallels.com>
To: <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to remount btrfs without compression?
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 11:00:42 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB88D4A.5050908@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EB88BC9.7020509@gmail.com>
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...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-08 2:00 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 [this message]
2011-11-08 15:01 ` Chris Mason
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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