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by MadMax
29 May 2023, 06:20
Forum: Help
Topic: Change the comparison & sync for an existing confiruration
Replies: 2
Views: 168

Re: Change the comparison & sync for an existing confiruration

There is a "Save" button in the top left of the window above the list of your saved configurations. It's greyed out until you change something in the configuration. You can also use Ctrl+S.
by MadMax
28 May 2023, 08:19
Forum: Help
Topic: SOLVED: Btrfs compression is not applied when copying files via FFS 12.2
Replies: 8
Views: 533

Re: Btrfs compression is not applied when copying files via FFS 12.2

Sounds good. Since rsync also does not preallocate by default, this should be fine. I just had a quick look at rsync's manpage and there is a switch that has to be turned on specifically. --preallocate This tells the receiver to allocate each destination file to its eventual size before writing data...
by MadMax
27 May 2023, 17:17
Forum: Help
Topic: SOLVED: Btrfs compression is not applied when copying files via FFS 12.2
Replies: 8
Views: 533

Re: Btrfs compression is not applied when copying files via FFS 12.2

I just installed and tested the 12.4 beta version and it works flawlessly now. Compression is applied correctly. With the rise of btrfs (Fedora even ships it with zstd:1 compression enabled by default) it would be a neat feature for FFS to have an option to omit the fallocate step or generally omit ...
by MadMax
27 May 2023, 07:49
Forum: Help
Topic: SOLVED: Btrfs compression is not applied when copying files via FFS 12.2
Replies: 8
Views: 533

Re: Btrfs compression is not applied when copying files via FFS 12.2

I also did a test with strace with a fresh btrfs subvolume to which I copied 5 files with 640 M. strace freefilesync &> ~/ffstrace.txt Result after the copy process with FFS: sudo compsize /mnt/more Processed 5 files, 5 regular extents (5 refs), 0 inline. Type Perc Disk Usage Uncompressed Refere...
by MadMax
27 May 2023, 07:35
Forum: Help
Topic: SOLVED: Btrfs compression is not applied when copying files via FFS 12.2
Replies: 8
Views: 533

Re: Btrfs compression is not applied when copying files via FFS 12.2

Thank you for the reply :) I can confirm that both rsync -av as well as cp -v write the files in a compressed manner to my btrfs filesystem (or rather the kernel/btrfs itself does it right). In the meanwhile I found out the "faulty" behaviour happens not only with FFS, but also with the pr...
by MadMax
20 May 2023, 09:05
Forum: Help
Topic: SOLVED: Btrfs compression is not applied when copying files via FFS 12.2
Replies: 8
Views: 533

SOLVED: Btrfs compression is not applied when copying files via FFS 12.2

Hello everyone! I am a big fan of FFS and use it almost everytime I have to copy or sync a large amount of data from one drive to another! Today I noticed the following behaviour: When copying data to a btrfs partition with enabled compression (mount option compress-force=zstd:6) data copied with FF...