Am Sonntag, 7. Oktober 2012 schrieb Swâmi Petaramesh: > Hi again ;-) > > Le 07/10/2012 14:33, Alex a écrit : > > 1. Convert to a 16k or 32k leafsize. > > How should I do this ? Can I do this on a live FS, and isn't this going > to double my on-disk used space (I have active snapshots...)
I think you need to backup, reformat and restore from backup for now. > > 2. defragment (each non-trivial file) every now and again > > I believed that the "autodefrag" mount option was supposed to avoid the > need for manual defrags...? In theory yes. But AFAIR it is currently limited to certain usecases. > Plus, with respect to snapshots, isn't this going to increase a lot my > used disk space ? I don´t think so, but I will leave this to a developer to answer. > > 3. Note that btrfs in kernel 3.6 (vs 3.5) does appear to be quite a > > bit quicker. > > I'm not sure that "a bit" quicker will be enough, when I see my BTRFS > is currently about 8x slower than what ext4 user to... How did you measure this? Is this just the boot times you mentioned in the original article? -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- 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
