Re: Btrfs-progs: Update man page for mixed data+metadata option.

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On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 05:47:14PM +1100, Chris Samuel wrote:
>> On 11/11/10 23:52, Josef Bacik wrote:
>>
>> > This feature incurs a performance penalty in larger filesystems, it is
>> > recommended for use with filesystems of 1 GiB or smaller.
>>
>> Maybe slightly stronger, for example:
>>
>> This feature incurs a performance penalty for larger filesystems and it
>> is ONLY recommended for use with filesystems of 1 GiB or smaller.
>>
>> Is it worth having a check and a warning printed if a user does
>> try and make a filesystem larger than 1GiB with this option ?
>>
>> Just in case they don't RTFM...
>>
>
> No because depending on your usage it's actually kind of usefull for anything
> less than 5 GiB, and you're only looking at about a 5-10% perf degredation when
> using it on larger filesystems. ÂThanks,
>

Then a warning of 10% slowdown if > 10GB would be good.  It's
surprising how many will just read some forum post and not concern
themselves with the docs at all.

And making them type "yes" if > 100GB is probably a good idea too...
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