On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Hadmut Danisch <had...@danisch.de> wrote: > Am 28.01.2012 00:20, schrieb Chester: >> 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) > > But having both compressed and uncompressed files in the filesystem is > exactly what I want to avoid. Not because of reading problems, but to > avoid wasting disk space. I don't have a reading problem. I have a > writing problem.
If you've been using -o compress, then you should know that even then not ALL data is compressed. If btrfs predicts that a data will be unable to benefit frmo compression, it will store it uncompressed. The problem is the prediction is not always right. Which is why there's -o compress-force. Anyway, for removable media case, there's a workaround that you can use (at least it works with gnome). Put the entry for the usb block device (e.g. /dev/sdb1) in fstab, with appropriate mount option, and the option will be used when you mount it using nautilus. -- Fajar -- 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
