From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SSoZS-0003IK-5U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 May 2012 12:03:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 76B1EE0CAA for ; Fri, 11 May 2012 12:03:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7C08E0992 for ; Fri, 11 May 2012 11:20:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjk13 with SMTP id jk13so2451371bkc.40 for ; Fri, 11 May 2012 04:20:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Q1uOmxvTpv+NrNrA32RA610UDCfyEHDTTysW61DIAuE=; b=0BaEuW419bkzVFCoJs/tJ7YKdzuuuU1YmuFUZwuog2h2HwEYIM1dcYR2bTfJnJe9gF /6owDbQuEYLLRGEYkV2njjT/P9odATHh4ALG/FeSCuX7pnz69vxUmiL/PmuTVVC8/ars nl477aL0EXGBA7arvV+IJLqb89rWK1AttreDJjQfgSSUW1mxbVK0SntstHAw+/vL+U9w LTvVU18ExzektDzs2Ev8LKO0pTUaUxDeHW/NjEJsNIxssuYysOyKsF3hAinH6tV+2YZD /511oZyD+N6Kmv74CNyLB3N7kVxznIYiS4jMXr3kkWxP/oqdhSaQiF55wyLkDUwKYAke RamQ== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.156.209 with SMTP id y17mr4641497bkw.113.1336735227859; Fri, 11 May 2012 04:20:27 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.205.43.138 with HTTP; Fri, 11 May 2012 04:20:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20120506142920.8c2e0f06.frank.peters@comcast.net> <4FA7A94E.7010009@digital-trauma.de> <20120507093458.a9840e1f.frank.peters@comcast.net> <20120509224900.ebe16622.frank.peters@comcast.net> <5ae537567759d0f555c5d23ed33329a2@junc.org> <20120510114217.faf95046.frank.peters@comcast.net> Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 07:20:27 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: rZjLGhyhXA4OtJrdz94QhxBPn7A Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 27363a59-25e6-4bf1-91e8-d856f5a30ef5 X-Archives-Hash: cd2a082fa1572c68b802fa95fe4d4cd7 On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Alex Alexander wrote: > > for a system drive maybe, but I wouldn't trust my data on it yet. let it > mature a bit first :) > For something like Gentoo that uses rolling releases, a system drive might be one of btrfs's better use cases anyway. All those instant snapshots can be very handy when managing upgrades/etc. I'm not sure I'd even go so far as to use it for that purpose yet, however, unless I didn't mind occasional downtime and had the ability to rapidly rebuild the server. If you view all those snapsnots as a great way to manage all the extra backups you'll be doing, then maybe it might work out. Rich