Hi Chris,
After our quick chat, I gave it a shot on 3.19.6, and things are better
than last time I tried.
legolas:/var/local/nobck/VirtualBox VMs# lsattr Win7/
---------------C Win7/Logs
---------------C Win7/Snapshots
---------------C Win7/Win7.vdi
---------------C Win7/Win7.png
---------------C Win7/autotune1.png
---------------C Win7/new_autotune2.png
---------------C Win7/Win7.vbox-prev
---------------C Win7/Win7.vbox
But I have snapshots of that subvolume, so obviously that gets
in the way of disabling COW.
I had a look, and I have 100K fragments. That took 10mn to figure out:
legolas:/var/local/nobck/VirtualBox VMs/Win7# filefrag Win7.vdi
Win7.vdi: 104306 extents found
This first filefrag run took about 10mn to count all the fragments on my
SSD. That feels a bit slow, but maybe the userland tool is doing things
in suboptimal ways.
Defrag actually worked (mostly) and wasn't too slow. It used to take hours
not to finish, and now it worked in 3mn:
legolas:/var/local/nobck/VirtualBox VMs/Win7# time btrfs fi defrag Win7.vdi
real 3m43.807s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m44.044s
This is defintely better than before.
Note that it's not fully defragged, but close enough. Each subsequent
run, filefrag is faster, and defrag is still faster than filefrag:
legolas:/var/local/nobck/VirtualBox VMs/Win7# time filefrag Win7.vdi
Win7.vdi: 11428 extents found
real 2m42.090s
user 0m0.000s
sys 2m37.308s
legolas:/var/local/nobck/VirtualBox VMs/Win7# time btrfs fi defrag Win7.vdi
real 0m7.483s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m2.672s
legolas:/var/local/nobck/VirtualBox VMs/Win7# time filefrag Win7.vdi
Win7.vdi: 11132 extents found
real 0m22.525s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m22.264s
It's a bit unexpected that I still have 10k fragments after 2 defrag
runs, but it's better than 100k :)
Marc
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