On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 07:16:55AM -0800, Cyril PEPONNET wrote: > Our snapshots are deleted / recreated quite often. If I apply the extent > size hint to the root folder of an existing tree, does it will still apply > for new created files ? Only for new files/directories created in the root directory. THe hint is not retro-actively applied. You'd need to walk the tree setting the hint on all directories to get it to apply to all new files created. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html