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PeteMoran
Jul 22, 2015Star
Compression effectiveness?
We use a RN104 (which replaced a standalone companion PC) to save Windows Image backups and database file dumps before transfer offsite. The Windows system images were quite compressible using NT...
- Jul 22, 2015
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Compression#How_can_I_determine_compressed_size_of_a_file.3F
Based on the wiki link, I think you need to do a df before and after compression.
StephenB
Jul 22, 2015Guru - Experienced User
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Compression#How_can_I_determine_compressed_size_of_a_file.3F
Based on the wiki link, I think you need to do a df before and after compression.
PeteMoran
Jul 22, 2015Star
Thank you. Great reference.
Looks like our files might suffer from "if the first portion of data being compressed is not smaller than the original, the compression of the file is disabled" because the df -k result shows ~72,810kbytes if force compression is on.
Seems like the compress decision is made on the first 4k block of data for the file.
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