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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] btrfs and sparse VM image files
Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 13:28:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140518132853.18e0a5b0@digimed.co.uk> (raw)

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I'm confused about the desirability of keeping VM image files, usually
space qcow files, on a btrfs volume. I have read the advice about using
chattr +C on the subvolume, but are there any other gotchas? The btrfs
wiki says in one place that using sparse file on btrfs is not a good
idea, but is that still the case. There is conflicting information out
there, does anyone here have any hard experience?


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Neil Bothwick

Beware of the opinion of someone without any facts.

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             reply	other threads:[~2014-05-18 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-18 12:28 Neil Bothwick [this message]
2014-05-19  6:55 ` [gentoo-user] btrfs and sparse VM image files Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-05-19 10:07 ` Marc Stürmer
2014-05-19 11:01   ` Neil Bothwick
2014-05-19 13:03     ` Rich Freeman
2014-05-20  7:46     ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-05-25  8:37     ` Marc Stürmer

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