Dave posted on Wed, 22 Oct 2014 08:49:46 -0400 as excerpted: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> As for the mounted filesystem question, since all it does is flip a >> switch so that new metadata writes use the skinny-metadata code path, >> it shouldn't be a problem. > > Nope. Just tried it here: > > # btrfs --version Btrfs v3.16.1-42-g140eccb > > # btrfstune -x /dev/dm-0 /dev/dm-0 is mounted
Thanks. So btrfstune refuses to set the skinny-metadata flag at all on mounted devices. Nicely reduces risk, /and/ answers the question. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- 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
