Hello all! I've searched the mailing archive (and the internet) about this topic, but came a bit empty-handed, as the last proper mention of BTRFS on this mailing list was 10 years ago.
So, given so much time has passed, I would like to ask the OpenAFS community if anyone has any experience on using BTRFS (on Linux) as a file-system for `/vicepX` partitions. Based on what I know, the OpenAFS file-server doesn't have many requirements for the underlying file-system besides the usual POSIX meta-data (protection mode, uid+gid, and timestamps?), thus I see no reason why it wouldn't work. (But before trying it out, I thought I'll ask.) :) Currently I use Ext4 over MD RAID5, and all is nice. However, I'm testing out BTRFS as a successor to Ext4, for two main reasons: * data integrity; (both to detect bit-rot, and possible software glitches that might corrupt my files;) * compression; (especially for text files and similar;) * snapshots; (it could provide a guard against any possible OpenAFS glitches, although to date I only suffered one symlink corruption;) Yes, I know there is also ZFS, but I don't want to go that route. At the moment I want to take a more conservative approach and just use BTRFS over RAID5 as with the previous Ext4 (and JFS before that). Thanks, Ciprian. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
