with lzo, and presumably lz4 the 128k extents of packed data are livable. on bootable thumbdrive images esp. with merged metadata I think favoring greater fragmentation vs. the current 128k would help, and giving larger files momentum to occupy more than 128k extents would also help.
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:29 PM, David Sterba <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 01:27:11PM -0600, Roger Pack wrote: >> I see from >> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Compression#How_do_I_enable_compression.3F >> "LZ4" support is currently being added. Here's my +1 for also adding >> something with "high" compression like xz or lzma, since they > First tests showed that it was really slow for normal use, but for > backup purposes it might be not that bad. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
