On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 16:42:33 +0800 Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.bt...@gmx.com> wrote:
> For the worst case, btrfs can allocate a 128 MiB file extent, and have > good luck to write 127MiB into the extent. It will take 127MiB + 128MiB > space, until the last 1MiB of the original extent get freed, the full > 128MiB can be freed. Does it mean enabling compression actually mitigates this issue as a side-effect? Since each extent will be limited to only 128K. What are the typical extent sizes without compression? -- With respect, Roman
