Duncan posted on Fri, 21 Nov 2014 22:49:06 +0000 as excerpted: > Chris Murphy posted... >> That's not true for thin volume snapshots. They take up next to no >> space upon creation, they don't need space reserved in advance. > > Thus the mention of compression if necessary. Thin-volume snapshots are > effectively compression by another name, and a raw dd from them should > compress pretty much equally well, depending on compression method > chosen, of course. =:^) Oops, I mis-parsed "thin". Good point and thanks, Chris. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- 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
