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I set the C (NOCOW) and z (Not_Compressed) flags on a folder but the extent counts of files contained there keep increasing. Said files are large and frequently modified but not changing in size. This does not happen when the filesystem is mounted with nodatacow. I''m using this as a workaround since subvolumes can''t be m...

I have a 3 disk raid1 filesystem mounted with nodatacow. I have a folder in said filesystem with the ''C'' NOCOW & ''Z'' Not_Compressed flags set for good measure. I then copy in a large file and proceed to make random modifications. Filefrag shows no additional extents created, good so far. A big thank you to the those devs who got that working. However, after a balance run (which crashed btw), modifications to the file result in...