[arch-general] btrfs & Arch

Simon Schneider schneida.simon at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 14:39:31 EDT 2011


Am 22.08.2011 18:35 schrieb "C Anthony Risinger" <anthony at xtfx.me>:
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa <gour at atmarama.net>
wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:38:52 +0200
> > Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Using LVM and software RAID is the right thing to do here. Any
> >> particular reason why you don't want it?
> >
> > To have one layer less.
> >
> >> btrfs is not ZFS. and btrfs is still experimental, and I think there
> >> are some people here who had bad experience with it.
> >
> > That's good to know. Thanks.
>
> i can more or less echo what Jan said -- running here since circa .30
> as well.  i totally fsck'd (pun intended :-) my FS once, and have
> needed to zero the log tree twice in that time, although i likely
> punish the FS a bit more than average user likely ... the time i hosed
> it i was doing some funky --bind mounts *through* and *directly to*
> the "special" subvolume dirs.
>
> if you want to use it you'll probably just want to keep close eye on
> development and be conservative about chosen options (eg. bootloaders
> cant handle compression/etc), but IME at least it's been pretty solid
> all things considered :-)
>
> ... if you need an external backup solution it works great as a
> fast/efficient differential system, whereby each "backup" is an really
> an in-place rsync to a new snapshot.  there are folks working on a
> means to "remote-send" the FS to other destinations, now sure the
> exact details on that one.
>
> ... and the fsck appears to be literally days away ... Chris just
> mentioned it again a day or two ago before going on vacation, though
> it's seemed close for some time now.  in short, it's definitely
> doable, and it's crammed with a bunch of interesting features, but you
> should at this point still be prepared to recover and/or lose it all
> (but to be fair, in a couple years on the list i haven't seen many
> FS'es totally nuked)
>
> --
>
> C Anthony
Hi

I was about to use btrfs for my new SSD but I couldn't find any reason why I
shouldn't stay with my normal LVM and ext4 setup. Is there any particular
reason why everyone is so crazy about that new fs?

Schneida


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