On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 10:01:51AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 11:00:42AM +0900, dima wrote: > > On 11/08/2011 10:54 AM, Eric Griffith wrote: > > >On 11/7/2011 8:52 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > > >>On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Eric Griffith<egriffith92@xxxxxxxxx> > > >>wrote: > > >>>Edit your > > >>>fstab, remove the compress flag, reboot. Tell btrfs to rebalance the > > >>>system, > > >>>reboot again. And I -THINK- that'll decompress all the files > > >> > > >>I think the original question was how to force uncompressed mode, > > >>whether specific to a file or to a whole filesystem, without having to > > >>reboot :) > > >> > > >>AFAIK there's no way to do that. > > >> > > > > > >Whoops! Misunderstood the question haha. Yeah, as far as decompressing > > >just a single file; from what I've read, thats impossible. > > > > > > Eric, Fajar, > > Thanks. Understood. > > > > Yes, it is possible to remove the compress flag from fstab, reboot > > and even do not do any defragmentation/rebalancing - just re-save > > the file and it will be saved uncompressed. This works. But only > > with reboot... > > chattr -c on the file should work (followed by defrag or rewriting the > file). I just retested and it seems to be broken right now. > > I'll track it down. Ok, I had forgotten. chattr -c clears the compression flag bug doesn't set the no compress flag. We looks like we need to patch chattr for this. -chris -- 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
