Re: efficiency of btrfs cow

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On 11-03-23 11:53 AM, Chester wrote:
> I'm not a developer, but I think it goes something like this:
> btrfs doesn't write the filesystem on the entire device/partition at
> format time, rather, it dynamically increases the size of the
> filesystem as data is used. That's why formating a disk in btrfs can
> be so fast.

Indeed, this much is understood, which is why I am using btrfs fi df to
try to determine how much of the increase in raw device usage is the
dynamic allocation of metadata.

Cheers,
b.

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