Re: [PATCH 1/2] Btrfs: online data deduplication

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On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:52:42AM +0800, Miao Xie wrote:
> On 	mon, 8 Apr 2013 15:47:27 +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> > This also depends on file data type and access patterns, fixing the dedup
> > basic chunk size to one block does not IMHO fit most usecases.
> 
> Maybe we can make btrfs(including dedup) support the bigalloc just like ext4.

dedup does not strictly need this, I agree it could make a few things
easier to implement. But I think it removes some flexibility once the
bigalloc cluster size is set, what if I want to change the dedup chunk
size because the structure of my data changed?

david
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