17 Jul
2013
17 Jul
'13
12:01 p.m.
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 06:03:13 PM Jason White wrote:
Btrfs also has online de-fragmentation, performed while the file system is otherwise idle. In addition, there's a defragment command that the administrator can invoke on files and directories.
But be aware that snapshot aware defrag is only in kernel v3.9 and later, in other words earlier kernels will (if you defrag) possibly end up duplicating blocks as part of the defrag. See commit 38c227d87c49ad5d173cb5d4374d49acec6a495d for more. All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP