RE: Encryption implementation like ZFS?

2011-12-31 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: linux-btrfs-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-btrfs- ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Sandra Schlichting TRIM pass-through for SSD's. With dmcrypt on an SSD write performance is very slow. That's a relative term. Suppose the SSD does 60x higher random IOPS than the HDD, in an

RE: how stable are snapshots at the block level?

2011-10-25 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: linux-btrfs-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-btrfs- ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Stephane CHAZELAS 2011-10-24, 09:59(-04), Edward Ned Harvey: [...] If you are reading the raw device underneath btrfs, you are not getting the benefit of the filesystem checksumming

RE: how stable are snapshots at the block level?

2011-10-25 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: linux-btrfs-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-btrfs- ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Stephane CHAZELAS rsync won't work if you've got snapshot volumes though (unless (etc blah) Please read the OP. He is currently using rsync to backup his snapshots and is not worried about the

RE: how stable are snapshots at the block level?

2011-10-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: Mathijs Kwik [mailto:math...@bluescreen303.nl] Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 11:20 AM Also if you're rsyncing the block level device, you're running underneath btrfs and losing any checksumming benefit that btrfs was giving you, so you're possibly introducing risk for silent data

RE: how stable are snapshots at the block level?

2011-10-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: linux-btrfs-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-btrfs- ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Mathijs Kwik I'm currently doing backups by doing a btrfs snapshot, then rsync the snapshot to my backup location. As I have a lot of small files and quite some changes between snapshots, this

RE: licenses (for apple OSX and others)?

2011-08-14 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: linux-btrfs-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-btrfs- ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of ivo welch curiosity question---could btrfs be licensed in multiple ways to allow Apple and other vendors to adopt it? No. The source code is copyrighted by many different entities, and the

Status of BTRFS

2010-07-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
Is this a good place to get a clue about the status of BTRFS?  Like ...  Is it usable yet, and stuff like that? Thank you... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at

RE: Status of BTRFS

2010-07-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: Sebastian 'gonX' Jensen [mailto:g...@overclocked.net] On 16 July 2010 13:55, Edward Ned Harvey ker...@nedharvey.com wrote: Is this a good place to get a clue about the status of BTRFS? Like ... Is it usable yet, and stuff like that? It has been in a good state for quite