On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:34:46 -0500 C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 :-) Nice. My desktop has UPS, so I hope I can avoid one kind of errors due to improper shutdown. > ... 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. No, for backup I use Amanda and LTO (2) tapes and the btrfs would serve my desktop. > ... 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) For now I'll experiment with my old laptop, but I had some GPT/syslinux related issues with install...let me resolve those first. Sincerely, Gour -- “In the material world, conceptions of good and bad are all mental speculations…” (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu) http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810
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