Re: Is autodefrag recommended?

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There is a drawback in that defragmentation re-dups data that is previously deduped or shared in snapshots/subvolumes.

---- From: Marat Khalili <mkh@xxxxxx> -- Sent: 2017-09-04 - 11:31 ----

> Hello list,
> good time of the day,
> 
> More than once I see mentioned in this list that autodefrag option 
> solves problems with no apparent drawbacks, but it's not the default. 
> Can you recommend to just switch it on indiscriminately on all 
> installations?
> 
> I'm currently on kernel 4.4, can switch to 4.10 if necessary (it's 
> Ubuntu that gives us this strange choice, no idea why it's not 4.9). 
> Only spinning rust here, no SSDs.
> 
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> With Best Regards,
> Marat Khalili
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