Re: bedup --defrag freezing

[Konstantin Svist <fry.kun@gmail.com>]

On 08/06/2015 04:10 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:
> On 2015-08-05 17:45, Konstantin Svist wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been running btrfs on Fedora for a while now, with bedup --defrag
>> running in a night-time cronjob.
>> Last few runs seem to have gotten stuck, without possibility of even
>> killing the process (kill -9 doesn't work) -- all I could do is hard
>> power cycle.
>>
>> Did something change recently? Is bedup simply too out of date? What
>> should I use to de-duplicate across snapshots instead? Etc.?
>>
> AFAIK, bedup hasn't been actively developed for quite a while (I'm
> actually kind of surprised it runs with the newest btrfs-progs).
> Personally, I'd suggest using duperemove
> (https://github.com/markfasheh/duperemove)

Thanks, good to know.
Tried duperemove -- it looks like it builds a database of its own
checksums every time it runs... why won't it use BTRFS internal
checksums for fast rejection? Would run a LOT faster...