On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> E.g. suppose you have a LZO compressed file, then a program rewrites some >> data which is in the middle of the file, and suppose the newly written data >> is less compressible. > > Any idea how this is handled? I would be interested in the answer as well. > > Thank you in advance, Clemens The same way any write is handled: the data is written elsewhere. Compression isn't special in this regard. -- 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
