Re: Putting very big and small files in one subvolume?

2014-08-29 Thread Hugo Mills
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 09:34:54PM +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > On 8/17/14, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > > Hello. One more Q re generic BTRFS behaviour. > > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page specifically > > advertises BTRFS's "Space-efficient packing of small files". > > Hello

Re: Putting very big and small files in one subvolume?

2014-08-29 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On 8/17/14, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > Hello. One more Q re generic BTRFS behaviour. > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page specifically > advertises BTRFS's "Space-efficient packing of small files". Hello. I realized that while I got lots of interesting advice on how to best layout

Re: Putting very big and small files in one subvolume?

2014-08-18 Thread Duncan
Martin posted on Mon, 18 Aug 2014 19:16:20 +0100 as excerpted: >> OTOH, I tend to be rather more of an independent partition booster than >> many. The biggest reason for that is the too many eggs in one basket >> problem. Fully separate filesystems on separate partitions... > > I do so similarl

Re: Putting very big and small files in one subvolume?

2014-08-18 Thread Duncan
Martin posted on Mon, 18 Aug 2014 19:16:20 +0100 as excerpted: > Also, for the file segment being defragged, abandon any links to other > snapshots to in effect deliberately replicate the data where appropriate > so that data segment is fully defragged. FWIW, this is the current state. The initi

Re: Putting very big and small files in one subvolume?

2014-08-18 Thread Martin
Good questions and already good comment given. For another view... On 17/08/14 13:31, Duncan wrote: > Shriramana Sharma posted on Sun, 17 Aug 2014 14:26:06 +0530 as excerpted: > >> Hello. One more Q re generic BTRFS behaviour. >> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page specifically >>

Re: Putting very big and small files in one subvolume?

2014-08-17 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 12:31:42 Duncan wrote: > OTOH, I tend to be rather more of an independent partition booster than > many. The biggest reason for that is the too many eggs in one basket > problem. Fully separate filesystems on separate partitions separate > those data "eggs" into separate ba

Re: Putting very big and small files in one subvolume?

2014-08-17 Thread Duncan
Shriramana Sharma posted on Sun, 17 Aug 2014 14:26:06 +0530 as excerpted: > Hello. One more Q re generic BTRFS behaviour. > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page specifically > advertises BTRFS's "Space-efficient packing of small files". > > So far (on ext3/4) I have been using two pa

Putting very big and small files in one subvolume?

2014-08-17 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Hello. One more Q re generic BTRFS behaviour. https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page specifically advertises BTRFS's "Space-efficient packing of small files". So far (on ext3/4) I have been using two partitions for small/regular files (like my source code repos, home directory with its