Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs and sparse VM image files

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Mon, 19 May 2014 12:07:32 +0200, Marc Stürmer wrote:

> Just take a look at the official Gotchas Page of BTRFS, which can be 
> found here:
> 
> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gotchas
> 
> Putting virtual image files on Btrfs is something that the developers 
> still do not recommend at all, and that's with reason!

The page you linked to does not actually state that. There are plenty of
hints and sideways references but little concrete information about what
is safe with the current release - hence my question.

> If you really do want to put them up a COW filesystem, you should try 
> ZFS on Linux instead, otherwise go with XFS or ext4 - in that kind of 
> order.

They are already on ZFS but I am investigating btrfs as an alternative to
ZFS. ZFS and ext4 would mean losing the volume management that ZFS and
btrfs offer, not to mention forcing a repartition.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Do you steal taglines too?

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