similar to: Data De-duplication

Glück Auf! I know its been discussed more then ones, but as a user I really would like to see the patch for allowing this in the kernel. Some users tested this patch successfully for weeks or months in 2 or 3 kernel versions since then, true? I''d say by creating a snapshot, it''s nothing else in the end. More then one file or tree sharing the same data on disc, or am I wrong?

Hi, I''ve noticed many files have blocks of plain nulls up to a few kb long, even files you wouldn''t normally expect to, like ELF executables. I know that with compression enabled these will compress very small, but that will have a reasonable hit on performance. How much of an overhead would it be to check all checksummed file extents to see if they match the checksum for a

I''ve been thinking about this for a while, from a perspective of how to make it work by allocating i-node numbers from a global pool, but yesterday I realized that offering the feature would be a bad idea because it violates the semantics of file systems. I will be happy to expand on that point if anyone disagrees with it. dln -- "It is merely a matter of persistence." --

I am testing a Btrfs root file system with Debian (kernel 2.6.32) under KVM. jason@vrtl:~$ touch testfile jason@vrtl:~$ cp --reflink testfile /tmp cp: failed to clone `/tmp/testfile'': Invalid argument This is with GNU Coreutils 8.0 taken from debian Sid. Is this a Coreutils issue, a Btrfs problem or something in my local configuration? All the other issues that I have encountered so

It seems that the BTRFS_IOC_CLONE ioctl fails when trying to do a cross-subvolume clone of a file. Chris Mason suggested in the past ([1]) that this should be possible. Am I missing something? [1] http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-btrfs/2010/6/10/6884911 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to

Hi, There''s been discussion before on this list on the very small number of hard links supported by btrfs.[1][2] In those threads, an often asked question has been if there''s a real world use case the limit breaks. Also it has been pointed out that a fix for this would need a disk format change. As discussed in bug #15762 [3], there are certainly real-world use cases this

Currently compression and I assume if encryption is implemented it is turned on or off during mount. There are however many times when a user may want to select which files/directories they want to compress or encrypt. This will also be helpful when implementing btrfs support in grub for example. We can say the disk can be compressed/encrypted except for /boot so compression/encryption

(switched to email. Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the bugzilla web interface). On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:20:20 GMT bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29302 > > Summary: Null pointer dereference with large max_sectors_kb > Product: IO/Storage > Version: 2.5 > Kernel

Hi I am hitting this Warning reproducible, the workload is a ceph osd, kernel ist 3.1.0-rc5. Best Regards, martin [ 5472.099766] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 5472.099833] WARNING: at fs/btrfs/inode.c:2193 btrfs_orphan_commit_root+0xb0/0xc0 [btrfs]() [ 5472.099838] Hardware name: MS-96B3 [ 5472.099842] Modules linked in: radeon ttm drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit psmouse sp5100_tco

Hi all, i am new on btrfs, i am testing KVM on btrfs (host: kernel x86-64 3.5.3), the performance is reasonable. I have two question on defrag, can someone help me? 1. According to btrfs wiki, defragment a COW file will produce two unrelated files. Does it apply to the "autodefrag" mount option? 2. Is there any command for the fragmentation status of a file/dir ? e.g. fragment

Hi, I am using kernel 3.7-rc6. I have written a test application for extended attributes and have for some folders a wired behaviour: #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <attr/xattr.h> char attrs[1024]; ssize_t attrslen; int i; char value[1024]; ssize_t valuelen; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { if (argc != 2) { fprintf(stderr, "Syntax: testxattr

Just compiled a custom kernel, but unable to mount a btrfs partition. It essentially says ''unrecognized filesystem''. What could be missing? # File systems # CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL=y CONFIG_EXT2_FS_SECURITY=y # CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XIP is not set CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y CONFIG_EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED=y CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y

Dear list members, In my previous thread at http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg23333.html there was a space_cache kernel bug/panic on kernel 3.8. I could successfully "fix" that with rebuilding the cache. But some files were missing/corrupted. So I booted a rescue CD with kernel 3.7 and ran btrfsck --repair, which repaired quite a few things. After a reboot I

Hi all, Just a quick question but can''t find an obvious answer. Can I create/convert a existing (btrfs) directory into a subvolume? It would be very helpful when transferring ''partitions'' into btrfs. I found a similar question way back in google, but that site is down now generally. Thanks in advance. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Hi! I recently tried to mount a filesystem in RAID1 mode using loopback devices. I followed the instructions at [1]. Here''s exactly what I''ve done: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=raid1_0.img bs=1M count=500 $ dd if=/dev/zero of=raid1_1.img bs=1M count=500 $ mkfs.btrfs -m raid1 -d raid1 raid1_0.img raid1_1.img $ losetup /dev/loop0 raid1_0.img $ losetup /dev/loop1 raid1_1.img $ mount -t

[root@btrfs progs-unstable]# btrfsctl -A /dev/sdb ioctl returns 0 [root@btrfs progs-unstable]# btrfsctl -A /dev/sdc ioctl returns 0 /dev/sdb has a btrfs, while /dev/sdc is blank. What''s that output supposed to mean ? Is it a bug ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info

Hi everybody, I am using btrfs as my main fs for some time now, but I am experiencing severe performance drawbacks. I can''t qualify the circumstances, but sometimes during disc access the whole system freezes for some time. Maybe somebody could suggest some general things I could try to search for the problem? Thanks in advance, Florian --- Some background information: $ mount |

Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com> --- fs/btrfs/super.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c index 15634d4..16f31e1 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/super.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c @@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ static int btrfs_parse_early_options(const char *options, fmode_t flags, u64 *subvol_rootid, struct

What are the recommendations for running KVM images on BTRFS systems using kernel 3.4?  I saw older posts on the web complaining about poor performance, but I know a lot of work has gone into btrfs since then.  There also seemed to be the nocow option, but I didn''t find anything that said it actualy helped. Anybody have ideas? Thanks, Matt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

HI, Do anyone know where btrfs_print_tree is invoked? thanks. -- Regards, Zhi Yong Wu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html