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From: | Maxim Cournoyer |
Subject: | [bug#40236] [PATCH] doc: Suggest Btrfs with compression instead of ext4 for root partition. |
Date: | Mon, 01 Jun 2020 14:29:34 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi! Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes: > Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes: > >> I always understood that as with compression you're using 51G instead of >> 88G, and because of deduplication from the daemon it would only be 88G >> instead of 217G. I took the numbers from 'none' to mean that the daemon >> itself already did a lot of deduplication. > > That's what I understood as well. tl;dr Your understanding is correct. I was under the impression that hard links shouldn't inflate the numbers reported under the "Referenced" column. I just asked over #btrfs and while hard links shouldn't inflate those numbers (as hard links aren't reflinks), they currently do. It's a bug. Maxim
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