Re: [arch-general] BTRFS integration

2010-05-06 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 5 May 2010 18:49:44 -0500 C Anthony Risinger wrote: > any other ideas besides rollbacks and an original snapshot that btrfs > could be used for? IIRC it supports data checksumming. about the whole snapshot/volume naming thing: do what you think is best. i cannot advise you because i don

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS integration

2010-05-05 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Isaac Dupree wrote: > On 05/05/10 19:10, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >> >> subvolumes can be mounted two ways via a mount option: >> >> 1) subvol= >> 2) subvol= >> >> 1 can only be used if the subvolume is in the root of the FS, i.e. >> /__active would work, but /root

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS integration

2010-05-05 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 05/05/10 19:10, C Anthony Risinger wrote: subvolumes can be mounted two ways via a mount option: 1) subvol= 2) subvol= 1 can only be used if the subvolume is in the root of the FS, i.e. /__active would work, but /root/__active would NOT... the mount option cannot have slashes and i don't kno

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS integration

2010-05-05 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > I was the one who proposed aif --expert on the forums  ;) heh yeah, i was too lazy too look it up, and it was all a part of my secret plan to get you to back me up :) > Did I understand it correctly that you can fix the "cannot promote

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS integration

2010-05-03 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
> in my opinion we need to let AIF/etc. integration mature along with > the FS itself. this way when BTRFS is marked "stable" the tools will > be ready as well and it will be a minor transition. I could not say it better myself. It always takes a while until the 'experimental' flag is removed in

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS integration

2010-05-02 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 05/02/10 15:27, C Anthony Risinger wrote: rollback support and friends are very cool (this just saved me the other day actually) and i think would provide a great benefit to the arch rolling model. it could save one from pacman running out of disk space when installing something (which pres

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS integration

2010-05-02 Thread C Anthony Risinger
> my main issue is that btrfs is advanced and we have much to think > about the way we want to include it.  rollback support and friends are > very cool (this just saved me the other day actually) and i think > would provide a great benefit to the arch rolling model. additionally its not as simple

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS integration

2010-05-02 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote: > On 05/03/2010 12:40 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >> >> >> BTRFS is not marked stable by the developers yet, its dangerous to include >> it in the interest of arch newbies. A disk crash may spoil the impression of >> Arch. >> >> In my opinio

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS integration

2010-05-02 Thread Gaurish Sharma
On 05/03/2010 12:40 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: BTRFS is not marked stable by the developers yet, its dangerous to include it in the interest of arch newbies. A disk crash may spoil the impression of Arch. In my opinion, we should wait some more time till the developers of BTRFS release

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS integration

2010-05-02 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 05/03/2010 12:13 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: hello, i maintain an unofficial btrfs initcpio hook in AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33376 BTRFS is not marked stable by the developers yet, its dangerous to include it in the interest of arch newbies. A disk crash may spoil