Re: consider dropping defrag of journals on btrfs

[Phillip Susi <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lennart Poettering writes:

> inode, and then donate the old blocks over. This means the inode nr
> changes, which is something I don't like. Semantically it's only
> marginally better than just creating a new file from scratch.

Wait, what do you mean the inode nr changes?  I thought the whole point
of the block donating thing was that you get a contiguous set of blocks
in the new file, then transfer those blocks back to the old inode so
that the inode number and timestamps of the file don't change.
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