Re: [gentoo-dev] preserve_old_lib and I'm even more lazy

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 22:44 -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu> wrote:
> >> Am I the only paranoid person who moves them rather than unlinking
> >> them?  Oh, if only btrfs were stable...
> >
> > Is this a reference to snapshots? You can use ZFS for those. The
> > kernel modules are only available in the form of 9999 ebuilds right
> > now, but they your data should be safe unless you go out of your way
> > to break things (e.g. putting the ZIL/SLOG on a tmpfs). Alternatively,
> > there is XFS, which I believe also supports snapshots.
> >
> 
> I've been using btrfs exclusively for about 6 months, and I don't
> *think* I've lost anything... :)
> 

I did ... tried it out and found it "tougher" than reiserfs to break
which is saying something considering how flaky extended 2/3 proved for
the same task.

Problem was, once it broke you couldnt fix it :(

Also there are some things that dont work, one of which was a few
packages would always fail to emerge when using btrfs for temp storage
(I think one was libreoffice)

So I deleted the btrfs partitions and put reiserfs back ...

BillK