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From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@gmail.com>
To: Timofey Titovets <nefelim4ag@gmail.com>
Cc: Diagon <kernel.boxy@xoxy.net>, linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Copying between lzo compressed BtrFS's: de/re-compressing.
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:25:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL3q7H7pQ576qKqknWEA2Trgu4hn_6SV00vm2fLwz=_MJ8Nw2Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGqmi76EQ1NYFhp7hdwdrP0VTNXdSYgePje036UGRWDnUV=EWw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Timofey Titovets <nefelim4ag@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2016-01-15 12:00 GMT+03:00 Diagon <kernel.boxy@xoxy.net>:
>> I'm copying a large number of files between two lzo compressed BtrFS
>> filesystems on different drives mounted on the same machine. It appears
>> that the files are being de/re-compressed. Is there a way avoid this?
>
> If you just copy files, files will be decompressed while reading and
> recompressed while writing
> For avoiding this, you must use send receive feature

No, send/receive does not avoid decompression on the send side nor
re-compression at the receiving side. The receiving side writes the
data from a send stream, which is uncompressed, to the destination
filesystem using standard system calls like write/pwrite.

>
>
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> Timofey.
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-- 
Filipe David Manana,

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 Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves.
 That's why all progress depends on unreasonable men."

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-15 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-15  9:00 Copying between lzo compressed BtrFS's: de/re-compressing Diagon
2016-01-15  9:56 ` Timofey Titovets
2016-01-15 12:25   ` Filipe Manana [this message]
2016-01-15 12:28     ` Timofey Titovets
2016-01-17 20:42     ` Diagon
2016-01-17 21:27       ` Chris Murphy
2016-01-17 21:57         ` Diagon

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