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From: Gert Menke <gert@menke.ac>
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Subject: Re: BTRFS as image store for KVM?
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Am 2015-09-18 04:00, schrieb Duncan:
> Some users have ameliorated that by scheduling weekly or monthly btrfs
> defrag, reporting that cow1 issues with temporary snapshots build up 
> slow
> enough that the scheduled defrag effectively eliminates the otherwise
> growing problem, but it's still an additional complication to have to
> configure and administer, longer term.

This makes me think if maybe btrfs+bcache, combined with scheduled 
defrag, could work reasonably well for me. The disk images should not 
get too big, though, I suppose, because then the defrag might take 
longer than desired.

Gert