On 10/30/2012 08:17 PM, cwillu wrote:

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If there is a lot of small files, then the size of metadata will be
undesirable due to deduplication

Yes, that is a fact, but if that really matters depends on the use-case
(e.g., the small files to large files ratio, ...). But as btrfs is designed
explicitly as a general purpose file system, you usually want the good
performance instead of the better disk-usage (especially as disk space isn't
expensive anymore).

As I understand it, in basically all cases the total storage used by
inlining will be _smaller_, as the allocation doesn't need to be
aligned to the sector size.

if i have 10G small files in total, then it will consume 20G by default.

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