From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (unknown [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D80091381FA for ; Sun, 11 May 2014 12:29:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CFE72E0980; Sun, 11 May 2014 12:29:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C89E0801 for ; Sun, 11 May 2014 12:29:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WjSsc-00006A-Kz for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 13:29:22 +0100 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 13:29:22 +0100 Message-ID: <1750520.K3pSx2xjXz@wstn> Organization: at home User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.12.13-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <536F5469.5010901@iinet.net.au> References: <20140506121832.678ae781@marcec> <201405110953.13798.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <536F5469.5010901@iinet.net.au> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01a-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 92594ca6-e8fa-4b30-9de2-b0568a5bc011 X-Archives-Hash: 5ceee4926b872ec39d3dd26cc0d2cd83 On Sunday 11 May 2014 18:43:53 William Kenworthy wrote: > One reason I am moving from reiserfs is bitrot - I can see that reiserfs is > losing favour. I'd been given that impression too, so a month or two ago I converted my few reiserfs partitions to ext4. When I came to restoring the /usr/portage partition from backup I had to double its size to fit the files in (or I could have tried fiddling with the arguments to mkfs.ext4, but resizing was easier at the time). -- Regards Peter