Hello, On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 01:35:20PM +0200, Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso wrote: > Still btrfs is quite young, I am not sure if there are serious issues in > 3.17, > I would make some experiments before actual use.
If you are going to use btrfs I would consider it essential to be subscribed to the linux-btrfs mailing list. You will also need to use a much newer kernel than 3.17, and you will need to commit to continuing to use newer kernels for some time yet. I mention this because you need to be aware that you may still hit issues where you need the help of linux-btrfs and that there is a need to use newer kernels than you will find packaged in Debian stable. I do myself run btrfs at home and I thought I had a stable combination of kernel version and userland tools (btrfs-tools), but when I came to need to replace a dead device I found that subsequent developments in btrfs meant I needed a newer btrfs-tools, and that in turn meant I needed a newer kernel. If the idea of having to upgrade kernel and some userland tools in order to recover from a simple situation of a dead device does not appeal to you then btrfs may not yet be for you. Things like this are why I do not yet run it in production. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting