Re: defrag vs autodefrag

2015-12-22 Thread Hugo Mills
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 09:28:37AM +, Filipe Manana wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Hugo Mills wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 07:26:07PM -0600, Donald Pearson wrote: > >> I read an implication in a different thread that defrag and autodefrag > >> behave

Re: defrag vs autodefrag

2015-12-22 Thread Duncan
Hugo Mills posted on Tue, 22 Dec 2015 20:30:41 + as excerpted: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 09:28:37AM +, Filipe Manana wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Hugo Mills wrote: >> > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 07:26:07PM -0600, Donald Pearson wrote: >> >> I read an

Re: defrag vs autodefrag

2015-12-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2015-12-21 at 09:28 +, Filipe Manana wrote: > Hum? > How is that so? Snapshot-aware defrag was disabled almost 2 years > ago, > and that piece of code is used both by a "manual" defrag (ioctl) and > by automatic defrag. Thanks for clearing that up. Could someone then please add an

Re: defrag vs autodefrag

2015-12-21 Thread Hugo Mills
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 07:26:07PM -0600, Donald Pearson wrote: > I read an implication in a different thread that defrag and autodefrag > behave differently in that autodefrag is more snapshot friendly for > COW data. > > Did I understand that correctly? I have not been doing defrag on my >

Re: defrag vs autodefrag

2015-12-21 Thread Filipe Manana
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Hugo Mills wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 07:26:07PM -0600, Donald Pearson wrote: >> I read an implication in a different thread that defrag and autodefrag >> behave differently in that autodefrag is more snapshot friendly for >> COW data. >>

defrag vs autodefrag

2015-12-20 Thread Donald Pearson
I read an implication in a different thread that defrag and autodefrag behave differently in that autodefrag is more snapshot friendly for COW data. Did I understand that correctly? I have not been doing defrag on my virtual machine image directory because I do use a snapshot schedule and the

Re: defrag vs autodefrag

2015-12-20 Thread Duncan
Donald Pearson posted on Sun, 20 Dec 2015 19:26:07 -0600 as excerpted: > I read an implication in a different thread that defrag and autodefrag > behave differently in that autodefrag is more snapshot friendly for COW > data. > > Did I understand that correctly? I have not been doing defrag on