On 2017年09月11日 15:54, shally verma wrote:
On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 12:16 PM, Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2017年09月11日 14:05, shally verma wrote:
I was going through BTRFS Deduplication page
(https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Deduplication) and I read
"As such, xfs_io, is able to perform deduplication on a BTRFS file
system," ..
following this, I followed on to xfs_io link
https://linux.die.net/man/8/xfs_io
As I understand, these are set of commands allow us to do different
operations on "xfs" filesystem.
Nope, it's just a tool triggering different read/write or ioctls.
In fact most of its command is fs independent.
Only a limited number of operations are only supported by XFS.
It's just due to historical reasons it's still named as xfs_io.
I won't be surprised if one day it's split as an independent tool.
and command set mentioned here, couldn't see which is command to
invoke dedupe task.
"dedupe" and "reflink" command.
Oh. That means page link referred on BTRFS Wiki page is not updated
with this. I googled another page that has reference of these two
command in xfs_io here
https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/8-xfs_io/
May be Wiki need an update here.
If XFS has a regularly updated online man page, we can just use that.
(But unfortunately, not every fs user tools use asciidoc like btrfs,
which can generate both man page and html).
and how this works with BTRFS.
Fs support FIDEDUPERANGE or BTRFS_IOC_FILE_EXTENT_SAME ioctl can use it to
determine if two ranges are containing identical data.
And if they are identical, we use FICLONERANGE or BTRFS_IOC_CLONE_RANGE
ioctl to reflink one to another, freeing one of them.
BTW nowadays, such dedupe and reflink ioctl is genericized in VFS.
file_operations structure now includes both clone_file_range() and
dedupe_file_range() callbacks now.
Yea. Understand that part. So going by description of "dedupe" and
"reflink", seems through these commands, one can do deduplication part
and NOT duplicate find part.
Yes, one don't need to call "dedupe" ioctl if they already knows some
data is identical and can go reflink straightforward.
That's still out of xfs_io command scope.
Not sure what the scope here you mean, sorry for that.
Since xfs_io can be used to find duplication, and can remove
duplication, I don't find anything strange in that wiki page.
(Especially considering how popular the tool is, you can't find any more
handy tool than xfs_io)
Thanks,
Qu
Is that understanding correct?
Thanks
Shally
Thanks,
Qu
So, can anyone help here and point me what am I missing here.
Thanks
Shally
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