Re: btrfs compression by default

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On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 1:09 AM Michel Alexandre Salim
<michel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 21:02 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is in regards to this Fedora 34 change:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BtrfsTransparentCompression#Scope
> >
> > The gist is to do 'mount -o compress=zstd:1' anytime Btrfs is used,
> > whether Destination Installation>Automatic or Custom or
> > Advanced-Custom. Apply it during the installation, and add it to
> > /etc/fstab.
> >
> > Somehow I got confused thinking that autopart supports --fsoptions,
> > and that would be the way to do this. But (a) --fsoptions isn't
> > supported with autopart, and (b) it wouldn't be a universal approach
> > anyway. And we want this to be consistent. Now I'm thinking it needs
> > to go somewhere in:
> >
> > https://github.com/storaged-project/blivet/blob/3.4-devel/blivet/devices/btrfs.py
> >
> > Am I on the right track, or does it need to go somewhere else, or in
> > addition to that?
> >
> (I'm one of the change owners, and trying to figure this out with
> Chris).
>
> Ideally we have a solution that is configurable - i.e. this is exposed
> via a kickstart command (and probably entailing changes in Anaconda and
> pykickstart), but if that is not possible, or require a lot of rework
> (which we can try to work on), if we are willing to carry a patch for
> blivet or some other component to override the behavior just for Fedora
> 34, what's the best way of achieving that?
>
> Btrfs is probably the only filesystem with built-in compression that we
> potentially care about, so designing an interface to expose this
> functionality might be an overkill -- but we're not sure.
>

Eventually, VDO might get integrated into the mainline tree, so having
the interface which could be used for LVM compression through VDO
wouldn't be too bad.



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