Can I have nodatacow but still have checksumming?
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 4:05 PM, cheater00 . <cheate...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
