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 5FA931381FA for ; Mon, 19 May 2014 11:01:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0EACE0D58; Mon, 19 May 2014 11:01:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEBC2E0D00 for ; Mon, 19 May 2014 11:01:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BA03920B8C for ; Mon, 19 May 2014 12:01:49 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 12:01:43 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs and sparse VM image files Message-ID: <20140519120143.685f8066@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5379D7E4.209@marc-stuermer.de> References: <20140518132853.18e0a5b0@digimed.co.uk> <5379D7E4.209@marc-stuermer.de> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3-199-gd0c64a (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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_/JLgRjPX4duXXcnKMOHqtxtI"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 3d7ab27c-daa7-4874-93cd-72ced08de1c0 X-Archives-Hash: 3f1993bafca9ae737ac823741e8db200 --Sig_/JLgRjPX4duXXcnKMOHqtxtI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 19 May 2014 12:07:32 +0200, Marc St=FCrmer wrote: > Just take a look at the official Gotchas Page of BTRFS, which can be=20 > found here: >=20 > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gotchas >=20 > Putting virtual image files on Btrfs is something that the developers=20 > 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=20 > ZFS on Linux instead, otherwise go with XFS or ext4 - in that kind of=20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Do you steal taglines too? --Sig_/JLgRjPX4duXXcnKMOHqtxtI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlN55J0ACgkQum4al0N1GQPBkgCfevd7BwNaQy1HciPDv8dkKIvk 17oAoMhnkdS9Ns/tSlSc/CGcrlj1qASV =qVU0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/JLgRjPX4duXXcnKMOHqtxtI--