On 10/01/2010 04:40 PM, James wrote:
> Daniel Troeder <daniel <at> admin-box.com> writes:
> 
> 
>> As I read about the nice performance of btrfs with compression I tried
>> it out two weeks ago. I'll be posting my benchmarks to this list soon.
>> Until now I didn't have any problems, but still would not use btrfs on
>> production systems.
> 
> What tool(how) did you setup btrfs?
> As I'm going to use it (test it) on an old 
> drive (system), with / /boot and swap all
> using btrfs.........
> 
> Fdisk(gentoo_handbook)? 
> 
> What would a grub entry look like?
> 
> /etc/fstab ?
> 
> Other affected files?
> 
> Well, I'm going to take the BTRFS plung. Any words
> of wisdom,  howto's or caveats are most welcome.
> 
> 
> James
I read the man and web page, and ended up using the defaults:

$ mkfs.btrfs /dev/xyz

To use compression, just mount with "-o compress". That's all :)

/etc/fstab:
/dev/mapper/vg0-portage /gentoo btrfs noatime,compress 0 2

I installed sys-fs/btrfs-progs-0.19-r1 and I have the 'acl' flag on.

I haven't done anything fancy since then, and it justworks(tm) ;)

Bye,
Daniel

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