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From: Mike Fleetwood <mike.fleetwood@googlemail.com>
To: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Small fs
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 22:32:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMU1PDgonwcpAtxPhOBQkoaGk8ev++GbL3p_JRAKB+FXKo0sTw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8dc76c71-aa15-8b9d-87e1-c21732a97779@gmail.com>

On 12 September 2016 at 19:55, Austin S. Hemmelgarn
<ahferroin7@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure about gparted, but the default behavior for mkfs is as follows:
> 1. Is the device rotational? (check /sys/block/<device>/rotational).  If
> not, do some extra stuff to try and ID it as an SSD.  If it is an SSD, use
> SINGLE mode for metadata, otherwise use DUP mode for metadata.
> 2. Is the FS set for mixed-bg?  If so, use the same profile for data as
> metadata, otherwise use SINGLE mode for data.
>
> It would not surprise me if gparted switches to single metadata mode for a
> small enough FS, but I'm not certain.  I do think that they just use the
> default selection for mixed-bg though, which means not using it in current
> btrfs-progs versions.

GParted always just takes the mkfs.btrfs defaults.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gparted/tree/src/btrfs.cc?h=GPARTED_0_26_1#n154

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-12 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-11 15:27 Small fs Imran Geriskovan
2016-09-11 15:32 ` Martin Steigerwald
2016-09-11 16:44   ` Duncan
2016-09-11 18:56     ` Imran Geriskovan
2016-09-11 19:21       ` Martin Steigerwald
2016-09-12 12:41         ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-09-12 14:09           ` Henk Slager
2016-09-12 14:12             ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-09-12 14:51             ` Chris Murphy
2016-09-12 14:56               ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-09-12  3:33       ` Duncan
2016-09-12 14:11         ` Imran Geriskovan
2016-09-12 17:43           ` Imran Geriskovan
2016-09-12 18:46             ` Imran Geriskovan
2016-09-12 18:55               ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-09-12 21:32                 ` Mike Fleetwood [this message]
2016-09-11 19:13     ` Martin Steigerwald
2016-09-11 19:46       ` Hugo Mills
2016-09-11 19:51         ` Martin Steigerwald
2016-09-12 12:45           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-09-11 20:33 ` Chris Murphy
2016-09-12  2:00   ` Duncan
2016-09-12  3:03     ` Chris Murphy
2016-09-12  4:54       ` Duncan
2016-09-12 14:48         ` Chris Murphy
2016-09-13  4:25           ` Duncan
2016-09-12 12:54   ` Imran Geriskovan
2016-09-12 13:01     ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn

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