Re: BUG: btrfs send: Kernel's memory usage rises until OOM kernel panic after sending ~37GiB

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> Backref walk is quite tricky in btrfs, we don't really have a good way
> to detect whether it's a good idea or not, until we crash...

I see...

>
> But at least, we have some plan to fix it, hopefully sooner than later.

That's good to hear

> That's correctly, that will punch holes for *unused* space.
> But still, all 0 extents are still considered used, thus won't really work.

Ahh that's what you mean, yeah it won't get those.
But the thing is, most all-0 pages should occur in unused space of
disk images, there shouldn't be much else that stores so many zeros.

> Since deduperemover has already skipped all 0 extents, it should be a
> big problem I guess?

As I said, I might've ran it once or twice without the flag but I
don't fully remember anymore.

-Atemu



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