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From: "Swâmi Petaramesh" <swami@petaramesh.org>
To: "BTRFS, Linux" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Another defrag question
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:46:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51264146.3070504@petaramesh.org> (raw)

Hi again,

Having numerous snapshots, I prefer to ask rather than take the risk of
exploding my storage space, better safe than sorry ;-)

"man btrfs" states :

« NOTE: defragmenting with kernels up to 2.6.37 will unlink COW-ed
copies of data, don't use it if  you  use  snapshots,  have 
deduplicated  your  data  or  made  copies with cp --reflink. »

I use :
# uname -r
3.5.0-24-generic

...So should I expect that defraging my BTRFS will be smart enough not
to uncow my snapshots ? Is it actually able to defrag both the file and
its snapshots altogether, keeping all this as a single physical copy of
the defragged data ?

TIA.

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             reply	other threads:[~2013-02-21 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-21 15:46 Swâmi Petaramesh [this message]
2013-02-21 15:50 ` Another defrag question Liu Bo
2013-02-21 15:55   ` Swâmi Petaramesh
2013-02-21 15:54 ` Calvin Walton
2013-02-21 16:01   ` Swâmi Petaramesh
2013-02-21 16:09     ` Blair Zajac
2013-02-21 16:38     ` Hugo Mills
2013-02-21 17:03       ` Swâmi Petaramesh
2013-02-21 17:25         ` Hugo Mills
2013-02-21 17:47           ` Swâmi Petaramesh
2013-02-21 20:46             ` Hugo Mills
2013-02-21 20:58             ` Bardur Arantsson
2013-02-21 21:56               ` David Sterba
2013-02-22  5:55                 ` Bardur Arantsson
2013-02-21 21:31             ` Johannes Hirte

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