[arch-general] BTRFS, a good choice for /?

[C Anthony Risinger]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Tavian Barnes <tavianator at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 September 2010 11:17, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists at itech7.com> wrote:
>> No more experienced btrfs people here?
>> @shridhar, from your btrfs experience, it seems it's worth a try,
>> waiting for more positive feedbacks.
>
> I've been running it / (SSD), /home, and /var since the beginning of
> the summer on my new computer.  In that time I've had 2 unclean
> shutdowns (power outages), and haven't seen corruption, so the lack of
> fsck isn't unbearable.

ah yes i forgot to mention that; i've unlcean shutdown both my laptop
and netbook more times than i can count... no issues.  from the btrfs
list, most people seem to have problems with unclean power down only
when other layers/indirection are involved, like dm-crypt, etc.

C Anthony