Re: defragmenting best practice?

[Timofey Titovets <nefelim4ag@gmail.com>]

2017-12-11 8:18 GMT+03:00 Dave <davestechshop@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 someone wrote:
>>
>>
>> > 2. Put $HOME/.cache on a separate BTRFS subvolume that is mounted
>> > nocow -- it will NOT be snapshotted
>
> I did exactly this. It servers the purpose of avoiding snapshots.
> However, today I saw the following at
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Btrfs
>
> Note: From Btrfs Wiki Mount options: within a single file system, it
> is not possible to mount some subvolumes with nodatacow and others
> with datacow. The mount option of the first mounted subvolume applies
> to any other subvolumes.
>
> That makes me think my nodatacow mount option on $HOME/.cache is not
> effective. True?
>
> (My subjective performance results have not been as good as hoped for
> with the tweaks I have tried so far.)
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True, for magic dirs, that you may want mark as no cow, you need to
use chattr, like:
rm -rf ~/.cache
mkdir ~/.cache
chattr +C ~/.cache

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Have a nice day,
Timofey.