Re: btrfs defrag questions

2016-07-05 Thread Henk Slager
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: > On 2016-07-01 22:46, Henk Slager wrote: >> (email ends up in gmail spamfolder) >> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 10:14 PM, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> Question #1: >>> >>> While doing defrag I got the following message: >>> >>>

Re: btrfs defrag questions

2016-07-04 Thread Dmitry Katsubo
On 2016-07-01 22:46, Henk Slager wrote: > (email ends up in gmail spamfolder) > On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 10:14 PM, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> Question #1: >> >> While doing defrag I got the following message: >> >> # btrfs fi defrag -r /home >> ERROR: defrag failed on /home/user/

Re: btrfs defrag questions

2016-07-04 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 4 Jul 2016 23:16:50 +0200 schrieb Kai Krakow : > Am Sun, 3 Jul 2016 23:30:20 +0200 > schrieb Adam Borowski : > > > On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 04:15:02PM +0200, Henk Slager wrote: > > [...] > [...] > > > > > > I get: > > > ERROR: cannot open ./dropbox: Text file busy > > > > > > whe

Re: btrfs defrag questions

2016-07-04 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 3 Jul 2016 23:30:20 +0200 schrieb Adam Borowski : > On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 04:15:02PM +0200, Henk Slager wrote: > [...] > > > > > > That is probably true. Files that are mapped into memory (like > > > running executables) cannot be changed on disk. You could make a > > > copy of that f

Re: btrfs defrag questions

2016-07-03 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 04:15:02PM +0200, Henk Slager wrote: > >> Provided that Dropbox is running in the system, does it mean that it > >> cannot be defagmented? > > > > That is probably true. Files that are mapped into memory (like running > > executables) cannot be changed on disk. You could mak

Re: btrfs defrag questions

2016-07-03 Thread Henk Slager
On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: > Am Fri, 1 Jul 2016 22:14:00 +0200 > schrieb Dmitry Katsubo : > >> Hello everyone, >> >> Question #1: >> >> While doing defrag I got the following message: >> >> # btrfs fi defrag -r /home >> ERROR: defrag failed on /home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropb

Re: btrfs defrag questions

2016-07-03 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 1 Jul 2016 22:14:00 +0200 schrieb Dmitry Katsubo : > Hello everyone, > > Question #1: > > While doing defrag I got the following message: > > # btrfs fi defrag -r /home > ERROR: defrag failed on /home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox: Success > total 1 failures > > I feel that something went

Re: btrfs defrag questions

2016-07-01 Thread Henk Slager
(email ends up in gmail spamfolder) On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 10:14 PM, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Question #1: > > While doing defrag I got the following message: > > # btrfs fi defrag -r /home > ERROR: defrag failed on /home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox: Success > total 1 failures >

btrfs defrag questions

2016-07-01 Thread Dmitry Katsubo
Hello everyone, Question #1: While doing defrag I got the following message: # btrfs fi defrag -r /home ERROR: defrag failed on /home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox: Success total 1 failures I feel that something went wrong, but the message is a bit misleading. Provided that Dropbox is running in