On Apr 25, 2014, at 12:43 PM, Steve Leung <[email protected]> wrote:

> Once everything gets rebalanced though, I don't think I'd be missing out on 
> any features, would I?

The default nodesize/leafsize is 16KB since btrfs-progs v3.12. This isn't 
changed with a balance. The difference between the previous default 4KB, and 
16KB is performance and small file efficiency.

Also, I think newly default with v3.12 btrfs-progs is extref support is 
enabled, which permits significantly more hardlinks. But this can be turned on 
for an existing volume using btrfstune.

Any other efficiencies in writing things to disk aren't actually rewritten with 
newer methods using a balance. Balance just causes chunks to be rewritten.

Chris Murphy

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