I'll just add nodatacow to the fstab, because the whole disk is for downloads. There actually is compression happening?
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Holger Hoffstätte <holger.hoffstae...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 10/27/15 15:43, cheater00 . wrote: >> I have remounted without autodefrag and the issue keeps on happening. > > At the risk of stating the obvious, the simplest thing is to stop using > COW with compression for torrents. It's fundamentally not useful to have > many small in-place writes, irregular compression and not encounter insane > levels of fragmentation, which - at least in the current state of btrfs - > is known to cause long stalls. Some fixes for that will be in 4.4. > > Until then just do yourself a favor, stop doing the wrong thing and put > torrent downloads into a directory where they won't get COWed. > > See the wiki at: > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#Can_copy-on-write_be_turned_off_for_data_blocks.3F > for more. > > -h > -- 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
