Re: Home storage with btrfs

2017-03-17 Thread Luca Citi
I have had some troubles recently using btrfs with kernels >=4.8 when using the cfq scheduler. Please see my post: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg63599.html I have no problem with kernels < 4.8 or when using the deadline scheduler (or none). It is possible that the problem I see i

Re: Home storage with btrfs

2017-03-15 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 23:26:32 +0100 schrieb Kai Krakow : > Well, bugs can hit you with every filesystem. Nothing as complex as a Meh... I fooled myself. Find the mistake... ;-) SPOILER: "Nothing" should be "something". -- Regards, Kai Replies to list-only preferred. -- To unsubscribe from th

Re: Home storage with btrfs

2017-03-15 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 23:41:41 +0100 schrieb Kai Krakow : > Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 23:26:32 +0100 > schrieb Kai Krakow : > > > Well, bugs can hit you with every filesystem. Nothing as complex as > > a > > Meh... I fooled myself. Find the mistake... ;-) > > SPOILER: > > "Nothing" should be "someth

Re: Home storage with btrfs

2017-03-15 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 07:55:51 + (UTC) schrieb Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net>: > Hérikz Nawarro posted on Mon, 13 Mar 2017 08:29:32 -0300 as excerpted: > > > Today is safe to use btrfs for home storage? No raid, just secure > > storage for some files and create snapshots from it. > > > I'll

Re: Home storage with btrfs

2017-03-15 Thread Duncan
Hérikz Nawarro posted on Mon, 13 Mar 2017 08:29:32 -0300 as excerpted: > Today is safe to use btrfs for home storage? No raid, just secure > storage for some files and create snapshots from it. I'll echo the others... but with emphasis on a few caveats the others mentioned but didn't give the e

Re: Home storage with btrfs

2017-03-13 Thread waxhead
Same here, Have been using BTRFS for a 'scratch' disk since about 2014. The disk have had quite some abuse and no issues yet. I don't use compression, snapshots or any fancy features. I have recently moved all of the root filesystem to BTRFS with 5x SSD disks set up in RAID1 and everything is (st

Re: Home storage with btrfs

2017-03-13 Thread Peter Becker
I can confirm this. I have also no generell issues since the past 2 years with BTRFS in RAID1 and 6 Disks with different sizes and also no issues with the DUP profile on a single disk. Only some performance issues with deduplication and very large files. But i also recommand to use a newer kernel (

Re: Home storage with btrfs

2017-03-13 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-03-13 07:52, Juan Orti Alcaine wrote: 2017-03-13 12:29 GMT+01:00 Hérikz Nawarro : Hello everyone, Today is safe to use btrfs for home storage? No raid, just secure storage for some files and create snapshots from it. In my humble opinion, yes. I'm running a RAID1 btrfs at home for 5

Re: Home storage with btrfs

2017-03-13 Thread Juan Orti Alcaine
2017-03-13 12:29 GMT+01:00 Hérikz Nawarro : > Hello everyone, > > Today is safe to use btrfs for home storage? No raid, just secure > storage for some files and create snapshots from it. > In my humble opinion, yes. I'm running a RAID1 btrfs at home for 5 years and I feel the most serious bugs hav

Home storage with btrfs

2017-03-13 Thread Hérikz Nawarro
Hello everyone, Today is safe to use btrfs for home storage? No raid, just secure storage for some files and create snapshots from it. Thanks. -- 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 ht