Bug 999184

Summary:	Feature Request to add scheduled maintenance scripts to btrfs-progs
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jonathan Briggs <zlynx>
Component:	btrfs-progs	Assignee:	Josef Bacik <josef>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	20	CC:	b1r63r, esandeen, josef, mmahut
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Description Jonathan Briggs 2013-08-20 21:44:53 UTC

I believe that btrfs would benefit from some jobs scheduled by cron or systemd to perform tasks such as a weekly scrub and possibly a defragment.

This would be just like /usr/sbin/raid-check from mdadm.

Some scripts for doing timed snapshots would be useful too.

Comment 1 Fedora End Of Life 2013-09-16 16:38:25 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 20 development cycle.
Changing version to '20'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora20

Comment 2 Eric Sandeen 2013-09-18 00:14:40 UTC

scrub maybe, if it doesn't cause more problems than it's worth.

defrag - probably not, there are usually side effects of that - at least on other filesystems (which granted are very different) you don't want to do an fs-wide defrag "just because."

snapshots - maybe, but seems like the space implications could make it tricky.

If you're really interested in this, it'd be great to put those scripts together & propose them on the list...

-Eric

Comment 3 Eric Sandeen 2014-05-13 16:39:01 UTC

btrfs-progs-3.14.1 has been pushed to Fedora 19 and 20 for testing.

I frankly have no idea if this will resolve your bug or not, but if you test it and find that it does, please take the opportunity to close this bug.  :)

Thanks,
-Eric

Comment 4 Eric Sandeen 2014-05-14 15:57:46 UTC

This is really something that should be proposed upstream, I think, not something that Fedora would uniquely implement.

Comment 5 birger 2014-10-02 16:53:52 UTC

I tried proposing snapshot-scripts upstream early on. I even submitted my own.

It was rejected on the grounds that they didn't want to make btrfs-progs bigger or add dependencies on script interpreters, etc.

So if someone goes upstream with this again, propose a separate package. Don't try to get them to add it to btrfs-progs. btrfs-utils perhaps?