Re: State of Dedup / Defrag

2015-10-15 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:33:56 -0400 as excerpted: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Zygo Blaxell > wrote: >> >> I wouldn't describe dedup+defrag as unsafe. More like insane. You >> won't lose any data, but running both will waste a lot of time and >> power. Either one is OK

Re: State of Dedup / Defrag

2015-10-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Zygo Blaxell wrote: > > I wouldn't describe dedup+defrag as unsafe. More like insane. You won't > lose any data, but running both will waste a lot of time and power. > Either one is OK without the other, or applied to non-overlapping sets > of files, but they ar

Re: State of Dedup / Defrag

2015-10-14 Thread Zygo Blaxell
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 08:29:20AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Zygo Blaxell > wrote: > > > > I wouldn't try to use dedup on a kernel older than v4.1 because of these > > fixes in 4.1 and later: > > I would assume that these would be ported to the other longterm >

Re: State of Dedup / Defrag

2015-10-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Zygo Blaxell wrote: > > I wouldn't try to use dedup on a kernel older than v4.1 because of these > fixes in 4.1 and later: I would assume that these would be ported to the other longterm kernels like 3.18 at some point? > Do dedup a photo or video file collection

Re: State of Dedup / Defrag

2015-10-13 Thread Zygo Blaxell
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 02:59:59PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > What is the current state of Dedup and Defrag in btrfs? I seem to > recall there having been problems a few months ago and I've stopped > using it, but I haven't seen much news since. It has been 1 day since a kernel bug leading to d