Re: What are thoses [btrfs-cache-nnn] kernel threads ?

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On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Chris Mason <chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Once enabled it does stay on, and strictly speaking it does change the
> disk format.  But, it is perfectly safe to go back to a non-space_cache
> enabled kernel and then go back into space cache.  Josef set things up
> so it would detect a non-space_cache mount and continue properly.
>
> space_cache is wonderful.  We did fix up a few bugs in .38 and .39 but
> I'll probably have .40 enable it by default.
>
> -chris
>

Sounds good, I thought it just made more sense to have it on by
default if it is that beneficial but I now understand that the option
was introduced to give users a choice until it made sense to enable it
by default.
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