Good afternoon,
Earlier today, I tried to set up a storage server using btrfs but ran
into some problems. The goal was to use two disks (4.0TB each) in a
raid1 configuration.
What I did:
1. Attached a single disk to a regular PC configured to boot with UEFI.
2. Booted from a thumb drive that had
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 2:54 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Note however: Even without "sync" BTRFS will defragment the file. It may
> just take a while till the new extents are written. So there is no need to
> call "sync" after btrfs fi defrag.
My purpose in calling sync in that transcript was
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 4:12 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Always do "sync" after a "btrfs fi defrag" and before measuring with
> "filefrag". The kernel may not have written everything. I have seen this
> repeatedly that the extent count drops further after a "sync", following
> "btrfs fi defrag
Good afternoon,
First, my apologies if this is a repeat email. My original email
contained an uncompressed copy of dmesg's output and I *believe*
that pushed the message over the 100KB limit, causing the list to
drop it.
When I try to defragment files (or recursively defragment trees of
files) on
