Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-08 Thread Alexander Sack
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:08 PM, James Tunnicliffe james.tunnicli...@linaro.org wrote: I just tested two a nano images using ext4 and they didn't find the root file system. So, we are at least gated on that bug. I filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-ubuntu/+bug/822593 to make ext4 our

Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-05 Thread James Tunnicliffe
On 4 August 2011 15:37, David Gilbert david.gilb...@linaro.org wrote: On 4 August 2011 15:28, James Tunnicliffe james.tunnicli...@linaro.org wrote: On 4 August 2011 14:56, David Gilbert david.gilb...@linaro.org wrote: On 4 August 2011 14:52, James Tunnicliffe james.tunnicli...@linaro.org

Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-04 Thread James Tunnicliffe
Hi, Our current default root file system, ext3, is proving to be a bottleneck for SD card performance. Not only does it take a long time to format the partitions, but it also takes a long time to write to. This slows down creating images on SD cards a lot. I just did a very simple experiment

Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-04 Thread Daniel Lezcano
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/2011 01:46 PM, James Tunnicliffe wrote: Hi, Our current default root file system, ext3, is proving to be a bottleneck for SD card performance. Not only does it take a long time to format the partitions, but it also takes a long time to

Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-04 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 12:46:58 +0100 James Tunnicliffe james.tunnicli...@linaro.org wrote: Hi, Our current default root file system, ext3, is proving to be a bottleneck for SD card performance. Not only does it take a long time to format the partitions, but it also takes a long time to write

Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-04 Thread Tom Gall
Hi James On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:46 AM, James Tunnicliffe james.tunnicli...@linaro.org wrote: Hi, Our current default root file system, ext3, is proving to be a bottleneck for SD card performance. Not only does it take a long time to format the partitions, but it also takes a long time to

Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-04 Thread David Long
As I understand it, btrfs is considered OK for file systems running on systems that don't suffer from power failure, so for writing an image and testing it this should be fine. So, what do people think about switching? I too would be considered about filesystem integrity given the number

Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-04 Thread James Tunnicliffe
On 4 August 2011 13:07, Daniel Lezcano daniel.lezc...@linaro.org wrote: IMHO it is not stable enough and I am not sure it is worth having such filesystem as it is mainly used for snapshotting. The last time I played with it, the FS was quickly corrupted but I don't have to complain because the

Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-04 Thread David Gilbert
On 4 August 2011 14:52, James Tunnicliffe james.tunnicli...@linaro.org wrote: I have seen poor performance when DDing to a card, which I assume is because dd is not writing large aligned chunks. If we can dd the first meg or so of data onto the card, then write in 4MB chunks that are all 4MB

Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-04 Thread David Gilbert
On 4 August 2011 15:28, James Tunnicliffe james.tunnicli...@linaro.org wrote: On 4 August 2011 14:56, David Gilbert david.gilb...@linaro.org wrote: On 4 August 2011 14:52, James Tunnicliffe james.tunnicli...@linaro.org wrote: I have seen poor performance when DDing to a card, which I assume