> [ ... ] slaps together a large storage system in the cheapest > and quickest way knowing that while it is mostly empty it will > seem very fast regardless and therefore to have awesome > performance, and then the "clever" sysadm disappears surrounded > by a halo of glory before the storage system gets full workload > and fills up; [ ... ]
Fortunately or unfortunately Btrfs is particularly suitable for this technique, as it has an enormous number of checkbox-ticking awesome looking feature: transparent compression, dynamic add/remove, online balance/scrub, different sized member devices, online grow/shrink, online defrag, limitless scalability, online dedup, arbitrary subvolumes and snapshots, COW and reflinking, online conversion of RAID profiles, ... and one can use all of them at the same time, and for the initial period where volume workload is low and space used not much, it will looks absolutely fantastic, cheap, flexible, always available, fast, the work of genius of a very cool sysadm. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
