On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 05:17:04AM +0800, ching wrote: > >> 3. Is any possible to online defrag a btrfs partition without hindered by > >> mount point/polyinstantied directories? > > Sorry, I do not understand the question. > > when a device is mounted under a directory, files in the directory is > "hidden", and files in the device is "available", right? > when a directory is polyinstantied, files in the original directory is > "hidden", and files in the polyinstantied directory is "available", > > How to get past them and pass those "hidden" files to defrag command?
I hope I get it right, so unless you have a reference to the directory with hidden files (using your term), there's no way to access them. And this is a more generic question, not related to btrfs itself. The hidden files may also belong to a different filesystem. david -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
