Re: Debian Buster: Is it safe to use on autodefrag on a Btrfs filesystem that is used for (Restic) backup only with no Btrfs snapshots or subvolumes?
> Is it safe to use autodefrag for my use case?
It sounds like it might be "safe" (the text doesn't actually say it's
unsafe, but just that it has downsides).
I do wonder why you'd want to do that, tho. Fragmentation is typically
something that clueless Windows users worry about (a left over from the
days of FAT filesystems; and even tho it became largely useless under
NTFS it persisted because it's easier to tell people how to defragment
than to explain to them why it's not needed any more).
Do you have a concrete reason to think that defragmentation will bring
you any tangible benefit?
Stefan
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