On 08/29/2011 03:22 PM, Simon Schneider wrote:
I got even more curious about btrfs after following this discussion
and installed it on my primary laptop (I planned a reinstall anyway to
get rid of windows). Installation worked perfectly with Archboot,
setting up two subvolumes, both compressed
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:22:37 +0200
Simon Schneider wrote:
> Btrfs is great, don't get me wrong, it really is fast and snapshots
> and all that worked really great, but it is, sadly, a little bit too
> unstable to use it anywhere than on a test machine. Even if you have
> UPS and all kind of measu
2011/8/25 C Anthony Risinger
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:44:10 -0500
> > C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> >
> >> unfortunately you can only do /boot on btrfs if you use a single disk
> >> due to bootloader limitations:
> >
> > Is it only
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:44:10 -0500
> C Anthony Risinger wrote:
>
>> unfortunately you can only do /boot on btrfs if you use a single disk
>> due to bootloader limitations:
>
> Is it only bootloader limitation considering that wiki page
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:44:10 -0500
C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> unfortunately you can only do /boot on btrfs if you use a single disk
> due to bootloader limitations:
Is it only bootloader limitation considering that wiki page says: "This setup
does not support btrfs RAID because a separate boot
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:44:10 -0500
C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> unfortunately you can only do /boot on btrfs if you use a single disk
> due to bootloader limitations:
Thank you for clarification...I was not really understanding the limitation.
> swap has been disabled in btrfs because it will co
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:25:52 -0500
> C Anthony Risinger wrote:
>
>> ... tbh, unless you want to get a feel for it, are ready to
>> troubleshoot, or have a specific use-case -- and have some other
>> backup systems in place -- you'll p
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:25:52 -0500
C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> ... tbh, unless you want to get a feel for it, are ready to
> troubleshoot, or have a specific use-case -- and have some other
> backup systems in place -- you'll probably just want to roll with "the
> usual" for now.
Let me say that
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:34:46 -0500
C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> 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 consider
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:17 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Simon Schneider
> wrote:
>> 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 wh
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Simon Schneider
wrote:
> 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?
for me at least i like how
Am 22.08.2011 18:35 schrieb "C Anthony Risinger" :
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa
wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:38:52 +0200
> > Thomas Bächler wrote:
> >
> >> Using LVM and software RAID is the right thing to do here. Any
> >> particular reason why you don't want it?
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:38:52 +0200
> Thomas Bächler 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
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:38:52 +0200
Thomas Bächler 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
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:43:58 +0200 Seblu wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa
> wrote:
> > Afaics, btrfs will soon get fsck tool for repairing the fs, but I
> > wonder what's the plan for btrfs support in Arch, iow, when it can
> > become 'official' ?
>
> BTRFS is alrea
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote:
> Hello!
>
> After package manager which can server both official repos & AUR,there is
> another thing which I consider before returning back to Arch - filesystem.
>
> On FreeBSD I now use zfs running on two 1TB disks in mirror (raid-1) m
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote:
> Afaics, btrfs will soon get fsck tool for repairing the fs, but I wonder
> what's
> the plan for btrfs support in Arch, iow, when it can become 'official' ?
BTRFS is already supported by initscripts:
https://projects.archlinux.org/ini
Am 22.08.2011 08:17, schrieb Gour-Gadadhara Dasa:
> I'd like to have similar setup on Arch, but without using lvm2+raid-1 (if
> possible),
Using LVM and software RAID is the right thing to do here. Any
particular reason why you don't want it?
> so I did research a bit about zfs on Linux and it lo
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 06:24:43 +
"Okky Hendriansyah" wrote:
> Have you heard about the in-kernel ZFS for Linux?
I did, but got feeling that btrfs might be better option for the Linux.
Sincerely,
Gour
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Subject: [arch-general] btrfs & Arch
Hello!
After package manager which can server both official repos & AUR,there is
another thing which I consider before returning back to Arch - filesystem.
On FreeBSD I now use zfs running on two 1TB
Hello!
After package manager which can server both official repos & AUR,there is
another thing which I consider before returning back to Arch - filesystem.
On FreeBSD I now use zfs running on two 1TB disks in mirror (raid-1) mode.
I'd like to have similar setup on Arch, but without using lvm2+ra
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