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From: ching <lsching17@gmail.com>
To: cwillu <cwillu@cwillu.com>
Cc: Felix Pepinghege <postfach@pepinghege.net>,
	"linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why btrfs inline small file by default?
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:40:25 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50904949.8010603@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE5mzvhkrV9XD3_X_w_eLk7R4jrf4PxhEBJYTU7Hr6YtFDDd6Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/30/2012 08:17 PM, cwillu wrote:
>>> If there is a lot of small files, then the size of metadata will be
>>> undesirable due to deduplication
>>
>> Yes, that is a fact, but if that really matters depends on the use-case
>> (e.g., the small files to large files ratio, ...). But as btrfs is designed
>> explicitly as a general purpose file system, you usually want the good
>> performance instead of the better disk-usage (especially as disk space isn't
>> expensive anymore).
> As I understand it, in basically all cases the total storage used by
> inlining will be _smaller_, as the allocation doesn't need to be
> aligned to the sector size.
>

if i have 10G small files in total, then it will consume 20G by default.

ching

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-30 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-30 11:04 Why btrfs inline small file by default? ching
2012-10-30 12:04 ` Felix Pepinghege
2012-10-30 12:17   ` cwillu
2012-10-30 21:40     ` ching [this message]
2012-10-30 22:14       ` Hugo Mills
2012-10-30 22:19         ` Hugo Mills
2012-10-30 23:47           ` ching
2012-10-31  0:12             ` David Sterba
2012-10-31 21:07               ` ching
2012-10-31  0:18             ` cwillu
2012-10-31  8:48               ` Ahmet Inan
2012-10-31  9:39                 ` cwillu
2012-10-31 10:48                   ` Ahmet Inan
2012-10-31 10:55                     ` Michael Kjörling
2012-10-31 11:10                       ` Ahmet Inan
2012-10-31 10:57                     ` cwillu
2012-10-31 11:56                       ` Michael Kjörling
2012-10-31 13:27                         ` Ahmet Inan
2012-10-31 13:44                         ` Roman Mamedov
2012-10-31 21:05               ` ching
2012-10-30 22:16       ` cwillu
2012-10-30 23:41         ` ching
2012-10-30 21:39   ` ching
2012-10-30 12:11 ` Felix Pepinghege
2012-10-30 12:13 ` Mitch Harder
2012-10-30 16:38 ` David Sterba

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