In btrfs-filesystem(8), improved the documentation of snapshot unaware defragmentation and included the exact kernel version numbers being affected as well as the possible effects. No longer use th word "unlink" which is easily understood as "deleting a file". Moved the warning more to the beginning of "defragment" subcommand's documentation where it's more visible to readers. Added the same warning to the "autodefrag" option of btrfs-mount(5). Signed-off-by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/btrfs-filesystem.asciidoc | 11 +++++++---- Documentation/btrfs-mount.asciidoc | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/btrfs-filesystem.asciidoc b/Documentation/btrfs-filesystem.asciidoc index 31cd51b..600bbac 100644 --- a/Documentation/btrfs-filesystem.asciidoc +++ b/Documentation/btrfs-filesystem.asciidoc @@ -55,6 +55,13 @@ if the free space is too fragmented. Use 0 to take the kernel default, which is 256kB but may change in the future. You can also turn on compression in defragment operations. + +WARNING: Defragmenting with Linux kernel versions < 3.9 or ≥ 3.14-rc2 as well as +with Linux stable kernel versions ≥ 3.10.31, ≥ 3.12.12 or ≥ 3.13.4 will break up +the ref-links of CoW data (for example files copied with `cp --reflink`, +snapshots or de-duplicated data). +This may cause considerable increase of space usage depending on the broken up +ref-links. ++ `Options` + -v:::: @@ -79,10 +86,6 @@ target extent size, do not touch extents bigger than <size> For <start>, <len>, <size> it is possible to append units designator: \'K', \'M', \'G', \'T', \'P', or \'E', which represent KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, PiB, or EiB, respectively. Case does not matter. -+ -WARNING: defragmenting with kernels up to 2.6.37 will unlink COW-ed copies of data, -don't use it if you use snapshots, have de-duplicated your data or made -copies with `cp --reflink`. *label* [<dev>|<mountpoint>] [<newlabel>]:: Show or update the label of a filesystem. diff --git a/Documentation/btrfs-mount.asciidoc b/Documentation/btrfs-mount.asciidoc index 39215a8..d364594 100644 --- a/Documentation/btrfs-mount.asciidoc +++ b/Documentation/btrfs-mount.asciidoc @@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ MOUNT OPTIONS Auto defragmentation detects small random writes into files and queue them up for the defrag process. Works best for small files; Not well suited for large database workloads. + + + WARNING: Defragmenting with Linux kernel versions < 3.9 or ≥ 3.14-rc2 as + well as with Linux stable kernel versions ≥ 3.10.31, ≥ 3.12.12 or + ≥ 3.13.4 will break up the ref-links of CoW data (for example files + copied with `cp --reflink`, snapshots or de-duplicated data). + This may cause considerable increase of space usage depending on the + broken up ref-links. *check_int*:: *check_int_data*:: -- 2.6.4 -- 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
