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
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