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authorDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>2015-06-26 16:23:00 +0200
committerDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>2015-06-26 16:23:00 +0200
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btrfs-progs: doc: update defrag page
- update wording for -t - add optional argument to -c Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
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@@ -49,27 +49,32 @@ Defragment file data and/or directory metadata *online*.
If '-r' is passed, files in dir will be defragmented recursively.
The start position and the number of bytes to defragment can be specified by
start and len using '-s' and '-l' options below.
-Any extent bigger than threshold given by '-t' option, will be considered
-already defragged.
-Use 0 to take the kernel default.
+Extents bigger than value given by '-t' will be skipped, otherwise this value
+is used as a target extent size, but is only advisory and may not be reached
+if the free space is too fragmented.
+Use 0 to take the kernel default, which is 256kB but may change in the future.
You can also turn on compression in defragment operations.
+
`Options`
+
-v::::
be verbose
--c::::
-compress file contents while defragmenting
+-c[<algo>]::::
+compress file contents while defragmenting. Optional argument selects the compression
+algorithm, 'zlib' (default) or 'lzo'. Currently it's not possible to select no
+compression.
-r::::
-defragment files recursively
+defragment files recursively in given directories
-f::::
-flush filesystem after defragmenting
+flush data for each file before going to the next file. This will limit the amount
+of dirty data to current file, otherwise the amount cumulates from several files
+and may increase system load.
-s <start>[kKmMgGtTpPeE]::::
defragment only from byte <start> onward
-l <len>[kKmMgGtTpPeE]::::
defragment only up to <len> bytes
-t <size>[kKmMgGtTpPeE]::::
-defragment only files at least <size> bytes big
+target extent size, do not touch extents bigger than <size>
+
For <start>, <len>, <size> it is possible to append
units designator: \'K', \'M', \'G', \'T', \'P', or \'E', which represent