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This sequence of log messages isn't clear: crawl_master: WORKAROUND: Avoiding RO subvol 6094 crawl_master: WORKAROUND: RO root 6094 The first is from a cache miss, and appears wherever a root is opened (dedupe or crawl). The second is skipping an entire subvol scan, and only happens in crawl_master. Elaborate on the second message a little. Also use the term "root" consistently when referring to subvol tree IDs. btrfs refers to these objects by (at least) three distinct names: tree, subvol, and root. Using three different words for the same thing is worse than using a single wrong word consistently to refer to the same concept. Signed-off-by: Zygo Blaxell <bees@furryterror.org>
BEES
Best-Effort Extent-Same, a btrfs deduplication agent.
About bees
bees is a block-oriented userspace deduplication agent designed for large btrfs filesystems. It is an offline dedupe combined with an incremental data scan capability to minimize time data spends on disk from write to dedupe.
Strengths
- Space-efficient hash table and matching algorithms - can use as little as 1 GB hash table per 10 TB unique data (0.1GB/TB)
- Incremental realtime dedupe of new data using btrfs tree search
- Works with btrfs compression - dedupe any combination of compressed and uncompressed files
- Works around btrfs filesystem structure to free more disk space
- Persistent hash table for rapid restart after shutdown
- Whole-filesystem dedupe - including snapshots
- Constant hash table size - no increased RAM usage if data set becomes larger
- Works on live data - no scheduled downtime required
- Automatic self-throttling based on system load
Weaknesses
- Whole-filesystem dedupe - has no include/exclude filters, does not accept file lists
- Runs continuously as a daemon - no quick start/stop
- Requires root privilege (or
CAP_SYS_ADMIN) - First run may require temporary disk space for extent reorganization
- First run may increase metadata space usage if many snapshots exist
- Constant hash table size - no decreased RAM usage if data set becomes smaller
- btrfs only
Installation and Usage
Recommended Reading
More Information
Bug Reports and Contributions
Email bug reports and patches to Zygo Blaxell bees@furryterror.org.
You can also use Github:
https://github.com/Zygo/bees
Copyright & License
Copyright 2015-2018 Zygo Blaxell bees@furryterror.org.
GPL (version 3 or later).