Is BTRFS "bedup" maintained ?

Hello,

(Not having received a single answer, I repost this...)

I tried to use "bedup" BTRFS offline deduplication tool on several BTRFS machines, with mixed results :

1/ Crashes with messages stating "programming error", sqlite objects must be used inside of the thread that created them, blah-blah...

2/ Crashes stating that some file/objects miss a "live" attribute (?)

3/ bedup eating all my system RAM, then swap over 7GB until the system trashes itself.

Wel, besides that and restarting over and over, I could deduplicate some files and gain some noticeable space, but it looks extremely bugged and unreliable.

I tried to email the maintainer with details, twice, thru 2 different channels, got no anwser...

And it looks like the GIT has not evolved since August, 2013.

So my questions are :

- Is "bedup" maintained or abandoned ?
- Is it supposed to be usable ?
- Should I use it ?
- Is there a risk that it causes data loss or corruption ?

TIA.

Kind regards.

Swâmi Petaramesh <[email protected]> http://petaramesh.org PGP 9076E32E

I got your post, and posted myself about bedup not working at all for me, and got no answer either.

As far as I can tell, it's entirely unmaintained and was likely just a proof of concept until the kernel can do it itself and that's not entirely finished from what I understand.

It's a bit disappointing, but hopefully it'll get fixed eventually.

Marc

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Bedup was/is a third-party project, not sure if its developer follows this list.

Might be worth filing a bug or otherwise poking the author on
https://github.com/g2p/bedup