[SOLVED] BTRFS question

nierro · 2013-04-30 11:25:12

Hi!
I'd like to give btrfs a shot. Thanks to our wiki, it seems really easy to convert an existing ext4 partition to btrfs.
But I'm stuck with this problem: i'd like to try btrfs lzo transparent data compression, but i'm now mounting my root in "rw" mode, so i'm bypassing fstab.
How can i use compress=lzo without modifying this behaviour? Or the only soution is to revert to "ro" and remount my root in fstab with compress=lzo mode?
Thank you very much!
Bye!

Last edited by nierro (2013-04-30 11:32:00)

65kid · 2013-04-30 11:28:42

rootflags=compress=lzo

nierro · 2013-04-30 11:31:42

You were really *fast* !
Thank you very much!!

WorMzy · 2013-04-30 12:41:06

Incidentally, the compression only applies to *new* files, not existing files. I believe that you can make the filesystem compress the old files (assuming they're compressible) by defragmenting it.

btrfsFAQ
You might consider remounting with -o compress, and either rewrite particular files in-place, or run btrfs fi defragment to recompress everything. This may take a while.

Unless something has changed, that command won't actually defrag everything, you need to do this: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php … n.27t_work

I don't use compression on my btrfs partitions, so I can't comment on whether defragmenting it does what the FAQ says it should.

nierro · 2013-04-30 12:46:16

Well, i'm aware of that, but thanks for pointing it out.
Arch wiki says

find / -xdev -type f -print -exec btrfs filesystem defrag '{}' \;

to defragment everything.
So you think i must do this to enable compression on every file? This is good!

Arch Linux

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[SOLVED] BTRFS question

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