On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:40:04AM +0200, Ilya Dryomov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 07:43:07PM +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 05:40:56PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > > Experimental patch to be able to compact only the metadata after
> > > clustered allocation allocated lots of unnecessary metadata block
> > > groups. It's also useful to measure performance differences between
> > > -o cluster and -o nocluster.
> > >
> > > I guess it should be implemented as a balance option rather than a
> > > separate ioctl, but this was good enough for me to try it.
> >
> > This should be covered by the restriper work. (And was also covered
> > by my balance-management patches, which were superseded by restriper).
>
> Hugo is right, this is covered by restriper (both kernel and userspace
> sides). The exact command would be
>
> btrfs fi restripe start -mconvert=PROFILE <mount point>
And the exact command to mimic your patch is
btrfs fi restripe start -m <mount point>
It simply balances metadata, whereas the one in the previous mail would
convert it to a specified profile.
Thanks,
Ilya
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