Re: [PATCH] Btrfs-progs: add dedup subcommand

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On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 12:34:42PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Montag, 30. Dezember 2013, 16:12:55 schrieben Sie:
> > This adds deduplication subcommands, 'btrfs dedup command <path>',
> > including enable/disable/on/off.
> 
> Nice. Looking forward to test it.

Well, I just got a report from another user, Marcel, who still got ENOSPC errors with this
around of patch set, so it seems that I don't really fix that bug, I guess I
have to work harder on this :-(

>  
> > - btrfs dedup enable
> > Create the dedup tree, and it's the very first step when you're going to use
> > the dedup feature.
> > 
> > - btrfs dedup disable
> > Delete the dedup tree, after this we're not able to use dedup any more
> > unless you enable it again.
> 
> So if deduplication has been switched on for a while, btrfs dedup disable will 
> cause BTRFS to undo the deduplication (and thus require more space for the 
> same amount of data)?

No, it remains unchanged, and the data is independent of dedupe, so you can read
them without any problems.

Happy new year.

Thanks,
-liubo
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