On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:29:02AM -0700, Sunil Mushran wrote: > I'm not too sure about that. Atleast not enabled by default. Most users > use cp to backup data. Not empty space. In this case, this empty extent > may not even be de-dupable. > > Frankly I'd be happier of cp started to exploited fallocate() to create larger > extents before copying data into them. Atleast for the large files. That's what delayed allocation is for. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs