15 Feb
2012
15 Feb
'12
7:39 a.m.
Chris Samuel wrote:
However, a program called fileflags has been posted to linux-btrfs that lets you enable/disable both COW and compression on a per-file basis:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/15737
Be interesting to know if it does help people!
I think this will also help syslinux, which (last time I tried) could boot off btrfs *iff* the syslinux.cfg, vmlinuz and initrd.img files were not written to compressed blocks. ICBF testing ATM, if anybody else bothers, please let me/us know.