Re: Copying between lzo compressed BtrFS's: de/re-compressing.

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Timofey Titovets <nefelim4ag@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2016-01-15 12:00 GMT+03:00 Diagon <kernel.boxy@xxxxxxxx>:
>> I'm copying a large number of files between two lzo compressed BtrFS
>> filesystems on different drives mounted on the same machine. It appears
>> that the files are being de/re-compressed. Is there a way avoid this?
>
> If you just copy files, files will be decompressed while reading and
> recompressed while writing
> For avoiding this, you must use send receive feature

No, send/receive does not avoid decompression on the send side nor
re-compression at the receiving side. The receiving side writes the
data from a send stream, which is uncompressed, to the destination
filesystem using standard system calls like write/pwrite.

>
>
> --
> Have a nice day,
> Timofey.
> --
> 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



-- 
Filipe David Manana,

"Reasonable men adapt themselves to the world.
 Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves.
 That's why all progress depends on unreasonable men."
--
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




[Index of Archives]     [Linux Filesystem Development]     [Linux NFS]     [Linux NILFS]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux