On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Chris Mason <chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Is there a decent way to have btrfs compress already existing files >> (that were written before compression was enabled) without hurting any >> of the internal structures such as snapshots? > > I'm afraid not yet. ÂThere is code for this in the btrfs balance > routines, but we haven't yet adapted it to the defragment command. > > -chris with enough disk space, if the OP adds a compressed device, deletes the original device, adds it back as compressed, and then deletes the temporary device, would that work? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
