Re: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: mkfs: Enable -d dup for single device

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On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 06:29:41PM +0800, Zhao Lei wrote:
> Current code don't support dup profile in single device, except it
> is in mixed mode, because following reason:
> 1: In some ssd with deduplication function, it have no effect.
> 2: For a physical device, it the entire disk broken, -d dup can
>    not help.
> 3: Half performance comparing with single profile.
> 4: We have a workaround: Create multi-partition in single device,
>    and btefs will treat them as multi device.
> 
> Instead of refuse -d dup, we have a better choise:
> Give user a chance to select, and output a warning to notice above
> problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

FYI, I've queued the patch for 4.4 (or later) whenever we're ready on
the kernel side.
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