Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de> schrieb: >> - btrfs dedup disable >> Delete the dedup tree, after this we're not able to use dedup any more >> unless you enable it again. > > So if deduplication has been switched on for a while, btrfs dedup disable > will cause BTRFS to undo the deduplication (and thus require more space > for the same amount of data)?
>From my intention I would guess it just looses track of what the content is in "content based storage" - so when re-enabling it will have to "learn" from beginning. It should not unshare data as sharing extents is a feature of btrfs disting from the function of online dedup itself. At least that would sound reasonable to me. Regards, Kai -- 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
