Hi @all who answered,
thank for your help and please excuse my late answer. I didn't see
your answers because of misconfiguration of my GMail filter for that
list.
The filesystem contains backups of some other filesystems (it's on a
external storage which is mirrored by RAID 1). So, if the filesyst
Andrei Borzenkov posted on Sun, 02 Apr 2017 09:30:46 +0300 as excerpted:
> 02.04.2017 03:59, Duncan пишет:
>>
>> 4) In fact, since an in-place convert is almost certainly going to take
>> more time than a blow-away and restore from backup,
>
> This caught my eyes. Why? In-place convert just need
On 2017-04-01 05:48, Kai Herlemann wrote:
Hi,
I have on my ext4 filesystem some sparse files, mostly images from
ext4 filesystems.
Is btrfs-convert (4.9.1) able to deal with sparse files or can that
cause any problems?
I would tend to agree with some of the other people who have commented
here,
On Sun, 2 Apr 2017 09:30:46 +0300
Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> 02.04.2017 03:59, Duncan пишет:
> >
> > 4) In fact, since an in-place convert is almost certainly going to take
> > more time than a blow-away and restore from backup,
>
> This caught my eyes. Why? In-place convert just needs to recre
At 04/01/2017 05:48 PM, Kai Herlemann wrote:
Hi,
I have on my ext4 filesystem some sparse files, mostly images from
ext4 filesystems.
Is btrfs-convert (4.9.1) able to deal with sparse files or can that
cause any problems?
AFAIK, btrfs convert can handle it well, not matter if it's sparse or n
02.04.2017 03:59, Duncan пишет:
>
> 4) In fact, since an in-place convert is almost certainly going to take
> more time than a blow-away and restore from backup,
This caught my eyes. Why? In-place convert just needs to recreate
metadata. If you have multi-terabyte worth of data copying them twic
Sean Greenslade posted on Sat, 01 Apr 2017 12:13:57 -0700 as excerpted:
> On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 11:48:50AM +0200, Kai Herlemann wrote:
>> I have on my ext4 filesystem some sparse files, mostly images from ext4
>> filesystems.
>> Is btrfs-convert (4.9.1) able to deal with sparse files or can tha
On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 11:48:50AM +0200, Kai Herlemann wrote:
> Hi,
> I have on my ext4 filesystem some sparse files, mostly images from
> ext4 filesystems.
> Is btrfs-convert (4.9.1) able to deal with sparse files or can that
> cause any problems?
>From personal experience, I would recommend not
Hi,
I have on my ext4 filesystem some sparse files, mostly images from
ext4 filesystems.
Is btrfs-convert (4.9.1) able to deal with sparse files or can that
cause any problems?
Thanks in advance,
Kai
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