On Tue, 2022-02-08 at 13:56 +0100, Peter Boy wrote: > > On the other hand, the traditional approach has only a poor > > solution to > > restrict directories. At installation time, the harddisk can be > > partitioned so that every directory (eg. /usr, /var/, ...) that > > needs a > > limit gets its own partition. The obvious problem is that those > > limits > > cannot be changed without a reinstallation. The btrfs subvolume > > feature > > builds a bridge. Subvolumes correspond in many ways to partitions, > > as > > every subvolume looks like its own filesystem. With subvolume > > quota, it > > is now possible to restrict each subvolume like a partition, but > > keep > > the flexibility of quota. The space for each subvolume can be > > expanded > > or restricted on the fly. > > The quote describes a situation which has gone for more of a decade > now. Since we have LVM (when got that part of the Linux kernel? > kernel 2.6? 2004 or so? Don’t know exactly), no one would partition a > hard disk along file system subdirectories. You create logical > volumes instead, which can easily "changed without a reinstallation“ > and space for any logical volume "can be expanded > or restricted on the fly“. The latter even easier with „thin > provisioning“. And of course you can do backups and restores via > snapshot, it's called LVM snapshot. What a surprise. I've been using BTRFS for several years now and it suits me. I could never get my head around LVM and considered it overkill for what most workstation users need, but that's a matter of personal taste. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
