On Jul 21, 2013, at 4:38 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > What I'd suggest is to turn on the btrfs autodefrag mount option, and to > do it *BEFORE* you start installing stuff on the filesystem. Is there a good reason why autodefrag is not a default mount option? > I believe > it's a known issue that a number of distro installers (what arch does I'm > not sure) tend to fragment their files pretty badly right off the bat if > you let them. This would happen if they write data into an existing > file, perhaps because they install a package and then customize the config > files, or if they don't write whole files at once. And a lot of btrfs > installs don't turn on the autodefrag option when they do thet first auto- > mount to install stuff. Some installer teams are understandably reluctant to use non-default mount options. Chris Murphy-- 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
