btrfs-progs: doc: update defrag page

- update wording for -t
- add optional argument to -c

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/btrfs-filesystem.asciidoc b/Documentation/btrfs-filesystem.asciidoc
index 26c3fbc2..31cd51be 100644
--- a/Documentation/btrfs-filesystem.asciidoc
+++ b/Documentation/btrfs-filesystem.asciidoc
@@ -49,27 +49,32 @@ Defragment file data and/or directory metadata *online*.
 If '-r' is passed, files in dir will be defragmented recursively.
 The start position and the number of bytes to defragment can be specified by
 start and len using '-s' and '-l' options below.
-Any extent bigger than threshold given by '-t' option, will be considered
-already defragged.
-Use 0 to take the kernel default.
+Extents bigger than value given by '-t' will be skipped, otherwise this value
+is used as a target extent size, but is only advisory and may not be reached
+if the free space is too fragmented.
+Use 0 to take the kernel default, which is 256kB but may change in the future.
 You can also turn on compression in defragment operations.
 +
 `Options`
 +
 -v::::
 be verbose
--c::::
-compress file contents while defragmenting
+-c[<algo>]::::
+compress file contents while defragmenting. Optional argument selects the compression
+algorithm, 'zlib' (default) or 'lzo'. Currently it's not possible to select no
+compression.
 -r::::
-defragment files recursively
+defragment files recursively in given directories
 -f::::
-flush filesystem after defragmenting
+flush data for each file before going to the next file. This will limit the amount
+of dirty data to current file, otherwise the amount cumulates from several files
+and may increase system load.
 -s <start>[kKmMgGtTpPeE]::::
 defragment only from byte <start> onward
 -l <len>[kKmMgGtTpPeE]::::
 defragment only up to <len> bytes
 -t <size>[kKmMgGtTpPeE]::::
-defragment only files at least <size> bytes big
+target extent size, do not touch extents bigger than <size>
 +
 For <start>, <len>, <size> it is possible to append
 units designator: \'K', \'M', \'G', \'T', \'P', or \'E', which represent
diff --git a/cmds-filesystem.c b/cmds-filesystem.c
index 675e41df..db629d89 100644
--- a/cmds-filesystem.c
+++ b/cmds-filesystem.c
@@ -1065,7 +1065,7 @@ static const char * const cmd_defrag_usage[] = {
 	"-f             flush data to disk immediately after defragmenting",
 	"-s start       defragment only from byte onward",
 	"-l len         defragment only up to len bytes",
-	"-t size        minimal size of file to be considered for defragmenting",
+	"-t size        target extent size hint",
 	NULL
 };