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 2EECB1381FA for ; Fri, 16 May 2014 20:16:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1A00E0B75; Fri, 16 May 2014 20:16:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.20]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B4B6AE08C0 for ; Fri, 16 May 2014 20:16:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from marcec ([77.22.138.176]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx101) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MbbWD-1WSuMP0iN3-00J59z for ; Fri, 16 May 2014 22:16:08 +0200 Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 22:15:58 +0200 From: Marc Joliet To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] experience thus far (was: planned btrfs conversion: questions) Message-ID: <20140516221558.19e69a5b@marcec> In-Reply-To: <20140506121832.678ae781@marcec> References: <20140506121832.678ae781@marcec> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/JCtEVo+/Szt4Y/plSZpJiJ1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:2ri0FDuHhySR9VBwv1bkNa4k7CG2sBaPdr2iNl6dr43Ssr8um5x 2YuFyIuwEkUo7BC8EYJhlYejgoljJD+jr5g3PC2jxCZFvk/sTO3CQ8+jQYH4WTHN3xhRRhd hAz2TUZb90yHLUZGGiEbakbcczJAv377B3pQvwt+Dewb7fALxzisVPajcdcXRrNhvAiJo/t 7vxp5hgAtquWOPTuEbgdw== X-Archives-Salt: 0ae309ee-f955-4fd1-bd15-18c0538ac08d X-Archives-Hash: 5c13b3be0db60c006a2980c380e6c3bc --Sig_/JCtEVo+/Szt4Y/plSZpJiJ1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable So, a week has passed since my conversion to btrfs. So far there seem to have been no problems, my system has been running as if nothing has changed :) . Which, as a friend pointed out, is how it should b= e. I don't think there is anything particularly interesting to mention in addi= tion to what I already wrote. I can just say that I think the effort was worth i= t. The one thing that I can tell from reading the past two weeks of the btrfs = ML is that the 3.15 Linux kernel series will contain lots of bug fixes (for example in balancing, error handling, and send/receive), and that I will wa= nt to use that sooner rather than later. Of course, the severity of the proble= ms varies, and a lot are triggered under odd, or at least uncommon, circumstan= ces. Still, its worth paying attention to. Also, a lot of problem reports I saw came from people using other volume management below btrfs, interestingly enough. As for the future, I think I will wait a while, and get some experience with btrfs first. I suspect that by the time btrfs supports swap files, it will= be stable enough that I would consider converting my SSD to also use btrfs anyway :) . Possibly before that, once I am fully convinced of btrfs' stability, I will also convert my backup drive and switch to using snapshots and send/receive to perform backups. Perhaps somebody will have written a backup solution on top of snapshots by then. Have a nice weekend, --=20 Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup --Sig_/JCtEVo+/Szt4Y/plSZpJiJ1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTdnIGAAoJEL/Q5oYsiHj0XZ0QAM/ZVY0l5c1ZIHa5SPQ4Gn0i +tt67fLqKBE72YBbXYJYu6O6+oi1lxA3ichBcf6xIpI+KapKpam5ghTn5Z4ezjZo vmSJY5+2D4AIljUi0bWZ/sFA+wUZVy5XazToqILZioe8YNKYLKfbI2hh5XYROBnw NZvKTu8Ksc/G3iP5twzyIHGi1fXFoZrTqzYc/8dhgmRPbe+ptbDoJbijOZHQ1fXM fgszTJpk2LO7Ee8iZekZ52b2AnPf9t5H0T/Z9en3skUPmSggzboTzzBuc4C5V1MB YhbaGbjY4KAnLcgKOYn/gVsVSlYV3HM8oDXsdhuK3+epLW1lQ59Rs7OdXoEbSaox S07G5xvaMOELlJJSAfNzZr4YQYC6tm7i8S6Dyv66bmXZDUKmvZ4bMWfd7cNizKik OxP6l1sRT1PP4L/cq0DlWlpnTWMQTyfUVRr7JrsU0E1reniLSlmJyyhjGSQIRpsc QJBR7OZO/2PQj5cl0APL7M17L4n1OxYe1bpaCwjPeRxXYX6fJU+a8SToeh/s8N3e SXQVNNCXLQB9PVq56pvOgOUw6y/VaAhATqVutRVN6jBmYRKMpZtUbpNwAJNfpkDH oFNMQO95H9IZ+pyxyDDAnUlboMBR02AdX71KJ1+l2jvY+RMGyTSHbKGDVH1Ov2m7 IEgDxhq5qaQ2AcFkoISo =7RYU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/JCtEVo+/Szt4Y/plSZpJiJ1--