On Monday, 31 July 2023 17:01:21 BST Laurence Perkins wrote:
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> >From: Neil Bothwick
> >Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2023 5:43 AM
> >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS
> >
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>-Original Message-
>From: Neil Bothwick
>Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2023 5:43 AM
>To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS
>
>On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 10:47:53 +0100, Michael wrote:
>> I doubt I will need anything
On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 10:47:53 +0100, Michael wrote:
> > I take snapshots every 15 minutes, keeping 5. Then hourly snapshots,
> > keeping 25, daily snapshots keeping 8, weekly keeping 6 and monthly
> > snapshots that I clean manually as space requires.
>
> I doubt I will need anything so frequent
On Saturday, 29 July 2023 08:06:40 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> I take snapshots every 15 minutes, keeping 5. Then hourly snapshots,
> keeping 25, daily snapshots keeping 8, weekly keeping 6 and monthly
> snapshots that I clean manually as space requires.
I doubt I will need anything so frequent, t
On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:57:25 +0100, Michael wrote:
> > I too put everything on subvolumes, and set the one containing / to be
> > the default when mounted without a subvolid.
>
> When you say "everything", do you include temporary and virtual
> filesystems too (e.g. /sys, /proc/ /tmp, /run), or
>If you can run two disks and raid, that's always a good idea. SMART is
>supposed to catch disk problems, but they still do die without warning.
>
>btrfs raid is (still) full of gotchas, as far as I know.
>
>Don't use anything higher than raid-1. Parity raid isn't reliable last I knew
>...
It's
On Friday, 28 July 2023 08:07:10 BST Wols Lists wrote:
> On 27/07/2023 17:18, Michael wrote:
> > Any gotchas I should be mindful of?
>
> If you can run two disks and raid, that's always a good idea. SMART is
> supposed to catch disk problems, but they still do die without warning.
Yes, esp. SSDs
On Thursday, 27 July 2023 18:30:11 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 17:18:14 +0100, Michael wrote:
> > Although I've been using btrfs for the best part of 10 years I have not
> > really done justice to it, because I have neither explored nor used
> > enough most of its features. I am
On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 08:07:10 +0100, Wols Lists wrote:
> WATCH YOUR FREE DISK. I think it's all sorted now, but whatever you're
> using it was always a good idea not to go over 90% full. For a very
> long time, a combination of snapshots and a full disk would wedgie the
> system, such that the on
On 27/07/2023 17:18, Michael wrote:
Although I've been using btrfs for the best part of 10 years I have not really
done justice to it, because I have neither explored nor used enough most of
its features. I am now thinking of installing Gentoo on btrfs again, but this
time I want to optimise the
On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:01:40 -0400, Igor Semyonov wrote:
> I am planning to install gentoo with btrfs over luks on another machine.
> My plan is to use luks to encrypt a drive or partition, then put btrfs
> over it and do things as before with btrfs.
>
> One thing I am wondering about is: what if
I simply have @ and @home subvolumes.
I use btrbk for automatic snapshotting and backups to an external drive and
via ssh to another machine.
For full disk encryption, I am not sure and would love some input on it
myself.
I am planning to install gentoo with btrfs over luks on another machine.
My
On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 17:18:14 +0100, Michael wrote:
> Although I've been using btrfs for the best part of 10 years I have not
> really done justice to it, because I have neither explored nor used
> enough most of its features. I am now thinking of installing Gentoo on
> btrfs again, but this time
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