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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 13:05:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201505051306.15821.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150505123338.5a8d4ad3@digimed.co.uk>

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On Tuesday 05 May 2015 12:33:38 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 5 May 2015 06:56:20 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > > I don't know about btrfs, seems like it's still in a testing-phase so
> > > i'm not touching it yet.
> > 
> > My understanding is that both zfs and btrfs on linux are fairly
> > experimental.  The codebase for zfs is much more mature in general,
> > though its integration on Linux is recent.
> 
> It's also based on an older version of ZFS, so we can expect stability to
> improve where necessary, but little in the way of new features
> (unless that has changed since I last used it and Sun have open sourced a
> later release).
> 
> > The codebase for btrfs
> > changes rapidly, with quite a few regressions.  I've never
> > irrecoverably lost data on btrfs, but it wouldn't be my first choice
> > for a production environment unless I basically did my own QC on the
> > kernel.  However, all my important data is on btrfs nonetheless (with
> > a full backup to ext4 daily right now).
> 
> I have a similar approach, although with duplicity backups to a file
> server. I have had a couple of problems with btrfs on my laptop,
> connected with unclean shutdowns. I didn't lose any data but the repair
> process took a *long* time.

During a backup of a home directory I noticed loads of Chromium and Firefox 
crash/recovery files being copied over.  However, I don't know if this is a 
btrfs problem, or the fact that I had to forcefully shut down KDE once or 
twice recently, because the desktop would not logout/shutdown normally.

The fsck which ran when the machine rebooted did not revealed any problems.  
Is there a different recommended way for checking for fs errors?

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-05 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-28  8:39 [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions Dale
2015-04-28 14:49 ` Francisco Ares
2015-04-28 15:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-04-28 15:24   ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-28 17:38     ` Rich Freeman
2015-04-28 18:11       ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-28 18:31         ` Rich Freeman
2015-04-28 18:41           ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-28 22:02     ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2015-04-29  1:24       ` Rich Freeman
2015-04-29  6:20       ` Alan McKinnon
2015-04-29 14:31         ` Grant Edwards
2015-04-29  6:13     ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2015-04-29  7:52       ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-04  7:39         ` Dale
2015-05-04  7:46           ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-04  8:13             ` Mick
2015-05-04  8:26               ` Dale
2015-05-04  8:23             ` Dale
2015-05-04 10:31               ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-04 10:40                 ` Dale
2015-05-04 11:26                   ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-09 10:56                     ` Dale
2015-05-09 12:59                       ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-09 14:46                         ` Todd Goodman
2015-05-09 18:16                           ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-04 11:35                 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-04 18:42                   ` Nuno Magalhães
2015-05-05  6:41                     ` Alan McKinnon
2015-05-05 10:56                     ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-05 11:33                       ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-05 12:05                         ` Mick [this message]
2015-05-05 12:21                           ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-05 12:39                             ` Mick
2015-05-05 12:53                             ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-05 21:50                               ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-05 22:21                                 ` Bill Kenworthy
2015-05-05 22:33                                   ` Bill Kenworthy
2015-05-04 10:57               ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-28 15:02 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-04  7:23 ` Dale
2015-05-05  3:01   ` Walter Dnes
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-11-09  1:16 Dale
2018-11-09  1:31 ` Jack
2018-11-09  1:43   ` Dale
2018-11-09  2:04     ` Andrew Lowe
2018-11-09  2:07     ` Bill Kenworthy
2018-11-09  8:39       ` Neil Bothwick
2018-11-09  2:29 ` Rich Freeman
2018-11-09  8:17   ` Bill Kenworthy
2018-11-09 13:25     ` Rich Freeman
2018-11-09  9:02   ` J. Roeleveld
2018-11-11  0:45   ` Dale
2018-11-11 21:41     ` Wol's lists
2018-11-11 22:17       ` Dale
2018-11-09  9:24 ` Wols Lists
2015-04-27  7:41 Dale
2015-04-28 18:25 ` Daniel Frey
2015-04-28 21:23   ` Dale

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