On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 09:05:41AM -0700, Suman Chakravartula wrote: > I'd like to calculate the compressed size of a btrfs filesystem. I read > the wiki and understand the backward compatibility issues mentioned. > Also, the "df before and after" method doesn't work for me and I have no > control over when end users are writing to the filesystem. > > Wiki says there's a patch which is not merged. Is that refering to this > discussion: > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/14942
I'll update the link. > Why was the patch not merged? Because the approach was abandoned in favor of a more generic solution that reuses the existing interface (FIEMAP). The patchset implementing this is http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/37312 -- 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