Christoph Anton Mitterer posted on Wed, 16 Dec 2015 22:59:01 +0100 as excerpted:
>> he obviously didn't think thru the fact that compression MUST be a >> rewrite, thereby breaking snapshot reflinks, even were normal >> non-compression defrag to be snapshot aware, because compression >> substantially changes the way the file is stored), that's _implied_, >> not explicit. > So you mean, even if ref-link aware defrag would return, it would still > break them again when compressing/uncompressing/recompressing? > I'd have hoped that then, all snapshots respectively other reflinks > would simply also change to being compressed, You're correct. I "obviously didn't thing thru" that the whole way, myself. =:^( But meanwhile, we don't have snapshot-aware-defrag, and in that case, the implication... and his result... remains. -- 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
