BTRFS, SSD and single metadata

2014-06-16 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Hi, I created a BTRFS filesytem over LVM over LUKS encryption on an SSD [yes, I know...], and I noticed that the FS got created with metadata in DUP mode, contrary to what man mkfs.btrfs says for SSDs - it would be supposed to be SINGLE... Well I don't know if my system didn't identify the

Re: BTRFS, SSD and single metadata

2014-06-16 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2014-06-16 03:54, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote: Hi, I created a BTRFS filesytem over LVM over LUKS encryption on an SSD [yes, I know...], and I noticed that the FS got created with metadata in DUP mode, contrary to what man mkfs.btrfs says for SSDs - it would be supposed to be SINGLE...

Re: BTRFS, SSD and single metadata

2014-06-16 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Hi Austin, and thanks for your reply. Le lundi 16 juin 2014, 07:09:55 Austin S Hemmelgarn a écrit : What mkfs.btrfs looks at is /sys/block/whatever-device/queue/rotational, if that is 1 it knows that the device isn't a SSD. I believe that LVM passes through whatever the next lower layer's

Re: BTRFS, SSD and single metadata

2014-06-16 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2014-06-16 07:18, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote: Hi Austin, and thanks for your reply. Le lundi 16 juin 2014, 07:09:55 Austin S Hemmelgarn a écrit : What mkfs.btrfs looks at is /sys/block/whatever-device/queue/rotational, if that is 1 it knows that the device isn't a SSD. I believe that LVM

Re: BTRFS, SSD and single metadata

2014-06-16 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 07:23:14 Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: I'd personally stay with the DUP profile, but then that's just me being paranoid. You will almost certainly get better performance using the SINGLE profile instead of DUP, but this is mostly due to it requiring fewer blocks to be

Re: BTRFS, SSD and single metadata

2014-06-16 Thread Duncan
Swâmi Petaramesh posted on Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:54:01 +0200 as excerpted: I created a BTRFS filesytem over LVM over LUKS encryption on an SSD [yes, I know...], and I noticed that the FS got created with metadata in DUP mode, contrary to what man mkfs.btrfs says for SSDs - it would be supposed

Re: BTRFS, SSD and single metadata

2014-06-16 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Le lundi 16 juin 2014, 12:16:33 Duncan a écrit : Does btrfs automatically add the ssd mount option or do you have to add it? If you have to add it, that means btrfs isn't detecting the ssd, First time I mounted the freshly created filesystem, it actually added the ssd option by itself. Thus