Re: [PROGS PATCH] Import btrfs-extent-same

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On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:35:15PM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> > Can you (or Mark) please turn it into a subcommand of dedup? The idea is
> > to merge both in-bound and out-bound dedup into one command, eg.
> > 
> >  btrfs dedup files dir/*
> 
> I can handle this - it's pretty easy but we have to talk about what we're
> expecting here.

> Specifically, the btrfs-extent-same.c software is just a wrapper around the
> ioctl. It never does actual reads of the files or data comparisons, etc. The
> syntax you describe above seems like it wants an actual "scan these files
> and dedupe them" which is a whole other ball game.

Yes that's what I meant and that's what dupremove in your git tree does,
right?

Using the EXTENT_SAME ioctl without any checks is dangerous, and that's
what btrfs-extent-same.c does, so it's suitable for testing but not
about to be given to users as-is.

> So I would suggest maybe something like the syhntax of btrfs-extent-same.c:
> 
> btrfs dedupe files len file1 loff1 file2 loff2 ...

I'm not sure I see what 'len' means here, length of the dedup block?

david
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