On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 11:09:57AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Marc Haber <mh+linux-bt...@zugschlus.de> 
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 06:27:17PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> >> how long is btrfs-image taking to run on a 400 GiB filesystem?
> >>
> >> I have /bin/btrfs-image -s -t 8 -s /dev/mapper/mydevice - | pixz -9 >
> >> file.on.other.fs running for four hours now
> >
> > Strike my question please, I didn't see that I had the -s doubled.
> > With one -s I now see actual progress.
> 
> Could be worth a bug report and a patch to keep it from using
> duplicate switches.

   No, the duplicate -s is a valid part of the API.

   One -s will replace the filenames with random data. A second one
will attempt to find a replacement name that matches the CRC32 hash of
the filename. That's why it takes so long.

   Hugo.

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