On Tuesday 05 February 2008 21:36:27 Christian Hesse wrote: > now that I have a live CD with btrfs support I decided to give btrfs on > root partition a try. I have good backups. ;) Here is what I have to tell > so far:
Here is one more data point. As an experiment I have used btrfs on / since 0.11 was released. Initially I believed that it wouldn't survive more than a few days, but I was wrong and now I must agree that it is quite stable. Great work! I have btrfs / on a usb stick, so the old filesystems are still safe on the hard drive if btrfs should eat my data. I have only found two issues: * No ENOSPC handling really sucks when your root file system is on a small usb stick. :-) * APT (Debian/Ubuntu package management) crashes when it tries to read its package lists. I have not had time to debug this yet, but a simple "aptitude update" is enough to reproduce the problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# aptitude update -- snip -- Fetched 3B in 0s (11B/s) Reading package lists... Error! E: Unable to determine the file size - fstat (75 Value too large for defined data type) E: Can't mmap an empty file W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Empty package cache E: Couldn't rebuild package cache [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# Regards, Pär Andersson _______________________________________________ Btrfs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/btrfs-devel
