From: Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@inwind.it>
To: Wang Shilong <wangshilong1991@gmail.com>, peer.loz@gmx.net
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is it safe or useful to use NOCOW flag and autodefrag mount option at same time?
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:01:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5508B245.5080607@inwind.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C879D0AA-018D-4C52-94F8-37D322F8DCD4@gmail.com>
On 2015-03-15 10:09, Wang Shilong wrote:
Hi Wang,
>
> Btrfs use COW feautr to do defrag, acutally there was bug in the past
> (nocow and defrag)..
>
> But make sure your kernel include following commit:
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=47059d930f0e002ff851beea87d738146804726d
>
> With above commit, i think autodefrag should work well with nocow.
If I read correctly, autodefrag disables the NOcow behavior. This to me doesn't seem be "work well"; these are two incompatibles features: enabling autodefrag disables the nocow behavior on all files.
Do I understood correctly ?
BR
G.Baroncelli
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-14 18:36 Is it safe or useful to use NOCOW flag and autodefrag mount option at same time? peer.loz
2015-03-15 9:09 ` Wang Shilong
2015-03-17 23:01 ` Goffredo Baroncelli [this message]
2015-03-17 23:16 ` Chris Murphy
2015-03-18 1:22 ` Duncan
2015-03-16 11:46 ` Russell Coker
2015-03-16 13:56 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-03-17 22:00 ` Jean-Peer Lorenz
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