Re: Does balance implicitly defrag?

2013-07-08 Thread David Sterba
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 02:28:25PM +0100, Paul Richards wrote: When I run btrfs filesystem balance, does this implicitly defragment the filesystem? (Assuming there is plenty free space) In some sense it defragments the filesystem. The blockgroups are moved around based on the balance filter.

Re: Does balance implicitly defrag?

2013-07-08 Thread Paul Richards
On 8 July 2013 22:12, David Sterba dste...@suse.cz wrote: On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 02:28:25PM +0100, Paul Richards wrote: When I run btrfs filesystem balance, does this implicitly defragment the filesystem? (Assuming there is plenty free space) In some sense it defragments the filesystem. The