Hi Jérôme, On Jul 6, 2013, at 1:48 AM, Jérôme Poulin wrote: > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Taesoo Kim <taesoo@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> q3. using nilfs as rootfs? >> (I couldn't find any people using nilfs for rootfs. Are there any >> issue on that? or just matter of performance? on updates for >> example) > > I'm using NILFS as root filesystem on my work laptop for a total of 4 > years. I switched to BTRFS for a year in between but looking at how > fast it kills SSD, it wass not worthwhile. > > Stability wise, I only had 2 problems with NILFS, the first, which was > fixed promptly, caused a total data lost because of how the cleaner > scrub the disk (using the time), it scrubbed data from the future > after time ran backward. Then the other problem was a kernel OOPS > about a file from the debian APT cache, I deleted it and it runs just > fine now, I couldn't take the backtrace. > Could you share more details about the issue? I need to understand the reproducing path of the issue more clear. Can you reproduce it again? Thanks, Vyacheslav Dubeyko. > Performance wise, on SSD the filesystem is really fast and snappy, > while on HDD, reads are really slow, booting takes 2 minutes instead > of less than 10 seconds, however, once booted and everything is in > cache, it is quite fast. Database loads, especially reads on HDD is > the worst for NILFS. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
