Re: Defragmenting to recover wasted space

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On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Qu Wenruo wrote:

In fact, you can just go nodatacow.
Furthermore, nodatacow attr can be applied to a directory so that any
newer file will just inherit the nodatacow attr.

In that case, any overwrite will not be COWed (as long as there is no
snapshot for it), thus no space wasted.

Aha, I didn't know about that feature. Thanks, that is exactly what I want.

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