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| From | Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Debian Buster: Is it safe to use on autodefrag on a Btrfs filesystem that is used for (Restic) backup only with no Btrfs snapshots or subvolumes? |
| Date | 2019-07-31 13:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <ypUuR-du-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <ypfL3-8rM-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <ypifU-1GP-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes: >> Is it safe to use autodefrag for my use case? > > It sounds like it might be "safe" (the text doesn't actually say it's > unsafe, but just that it has downsides). > > I do wonder why you'd want to do that, tho. Fragmentation is typically > something that clueless Windows users worry about No. Fragmentation is an issue with all copy-on-write filesystems (including ZFS, which avoids periodic defrag by keeping an enormous amount of information in memory and doing defrag on the fly on that). Mart -- "We will need a longer wall when the revolution comes." --- AJS, quoting an uncertain source.
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Debian Buster: Is it safe to use on autodefrag on a Btrfs filesystem that is used for (Restic) backup only with no Btrfs snapshots or subvolumes? Judah Richardson <judahrichardson@gmail.com> - 2019-07-29 17:30 +0200
Re: Debian Buster: Is it safe to use on autodefrag on a Btrfs filesystem that is used for (Restic) backup only with no Btrfs snapshots or subvolumes? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-07-29 20:10 +0200
Re: Debian Buster: Is it safe to use on autodefrag on a Btrfs filesystem that is used for (Restic) backup only with no Btrfs snapshots or subvolumes? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-29 23:50 +0200
Re: Debian Buster: Is it safe to use on autodefrag on a Btrfs filesystem that is used for (Restic) backup only with no Btrfs snapshots or subvolumes? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-07-30 00:00 +0200
Re: Debian Buster: Is it safe to use on autodefrag on a Btrfs filesystem that is used for (Restic) backup only with no Btrfs snapshots or subvolumes? Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2019-07-31 13:00 +0200
Re: Debian Buster: Is it safe to use on autodefrag on a Btrfs filesystem that is used for (Restic) backup only with no Btrfs snapshots or subvolumes? Judah Richardson <judahrichardson@gmail.com> - 2019-07-31 16:10 +0200
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