On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Hadmut Danisch <had...@danisch.de> wrote: > Hi, > > just a question: > > Mounting options for file systems are usually given on the command line > or in /etc/fstab. > > Both do not work with mobile storage devices like usb hard disks, since > they are either mounted automatically through the desktop, or manually > by a user who does not know or remember the mount options for this file > system. At least it's error prone. > > > > What happens if a btrfs is mounted sometimes with and sometimes without > the compression option? I'd guess it generates a mixture of compressed > and uncompressed files, what is not exactly smart. >
It should be okay to mount with compress or without compress. Even if you mount a volume with compressed data without '-o compress' you will still be able to correctly read the data (but newly written data will not be compressed) > Is there a way to set options like compression on a btrfs permanently to > activate them even when mounted automatically by the desktop or manually > by a third person? > > > regards > Hadmut > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
