Re: Is it safe or useful to use NOCOW flag and autodefrag mount option at same time?

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On 2015-03-15 10:09, Wang Shilong wrote:

Hi Wang,

> 
> Btrfs use COW feautr to do defrag, acutally there was bug in the past
> (nocow and defrag)..
> 
> But make sure your kernel include following commit:
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=47059d930f0e002ff851beea87d738146804726d
> 
> With above commit, i think autodefrag should work well with nocow.

If I read correctly, autodefrag disables the NOcow behavior. This to me doesn't seem be "work well"; these are two incompatibles features: enabling autodefrag disables the nocow behavior on all files.
Do I understood correctly ?

BR
G.Baroncelli
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