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"Git aging workload on btrfs on HDD. The overall slowdown is 20.6x." Well, this article is fascinating, but maybe the reason why btrfs has built-in defrag func

"Git aging workload on btrfs on HDD. The overall slowdown is 20.6x." Well, this article is fascinating, but maybe the reason why btrfs has built-in defrag functionality is because without it, performance degrades incredibly steeply?

pmarreck 5y ago
Followup to this: I've had a btrfs defrag running for over 12 hours now :O
- kasabali 5y ago
  Are you on Linux 5.16? You might've hit the infinite defrag bug.
  - pmarreck 5y ago
    i'm on arch, so probably. any info on this?
    - kasabali 5y ago
      https://www.reddit.com/r/btrfs/comments/sh0otq https://www.reddit.com/r/btrfs/comments/sh0otq
      - pmarreck 5y ago
        interesting, my btrfs mount in fstab did not have autodefrag on, but I also have it in a VMWare VM, so it is probably that