Am 22.08.2011 18:35 schrieb "C Anthony Risinger" <anthony@xxxxxxx>: > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa <gour@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:38:52 +0200 > > Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Using LVM and software RAID is the right thing to do here. Any > >> particular reason why you don't want it? > > > > To have one layer less. > > > >> btrfs is not ZFS. and btrfs is still experimental, and I think there > >> are some people here who had bad experience with it. > > > > That's good to know. Thanks. > > i can more or less echo what Jan said -- running here since circa .30 > as well. i totally fsck'd (pun intended :-) my FS once, and have > needed to zero the log tree twice in that time, although i likely > punish the FS a bit more than average user likely ... the time i hosed > it i was doing some funky --bind mounts *through* and *directly to* > the "special" subvolume dirs. > > if you want to use it you'll probably just want to keep close eye on > development and be conservative about chosen options (eg. bootloaders > cant handle compression/etc), but IME at least it's been pretty solid > all things considered :-) > > ... if you need an external backup solution it works great as a > fast/efficient differential system, whereby each "backup" is an really > an in-place rsync to a new snapshot. there are folks working on a > means to "remote-send" the FS to other destinations, now sure the > exact details on that one. > > ... and the fsck appears to be literally days away ... Chris just > mentioned it again a day or two ago before going on vacation, though > it's seemed close for some time now. in short, it's definitely > doable, and it's crammed with a bunch of interesting features, but you > should at this point still be prepared to recover and/or lose it all > (but to be fair, in a couple years on the list i haven't seen many > FS'es totally nuked) > > -- > > C Anthony Hi I was about to use btrfs for my new SSD but I couldn't find any reason why I shouldn't stay with my normal LVM and ext4 setup. Is there any particular reason why everyone is so crazy about that new fs? Schneida
