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From: Hans van Kranenburg <hans.van.kranenburg@mendix.com>
To: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>,
	"linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: speed up cp --reflink=always
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 00:37:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4e88008a-b844-e7d6-cba3-f86ce976b753@mendix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6e902770-05f3-2562-eeb3-dd9ef53b9406@profihost.ag>

Hi,

On 10/15/2016 10:49 PM, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> 
> cp --reflink=always takes sometimes very long. (i.e. 25-35 minutes)
> 
> An example:
> 
> source file:
> # ls -la vm-279-disk-1.img
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 204010946560 Oct 14 12:15 vm-279-disk-1.img
> 
> target file after around 10 minutes:
> # ls -la vm-279-disk-1.img.tmp
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65022328832 Oct 15 22:13 vm-279-disk-1.img.tmp

Two quick thoughts:
1. How many extents does this img have?
2. Is this an XY problem? Why not just put the img in a subvolume and
snapshot that?

K

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-15 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-15 20:49 speed up cp --reflink=always Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2016-10-15 22:37 ` Hans van Kranenburg [this message]
2016-10-16 18:54   ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2016-10-16 19:48     ` Hans van Kranenburg
2016-10-16 19:57       ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2016-10-16 20:00       ` Hans van Kranenburg
2016-10-17  1:50     ` Qu Wenruo
2016-10-17  6:50       ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2016-10-18  4:27         ` Duncan
2016-10-18  6:57         ` Qu Wenruo

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