From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P25uK-0007Pv-8N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:30:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A9BDE0757; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 17:29:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx01.admin-box.com (mx01.admin-box.com [78.47.249.108]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C201E0757 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 17:29:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx01.admin-box.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 830803072AAB for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 19:29:23 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx01.admin-box.com Received: from mx01.admin-box.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx01.admin-box.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id d9pIFq6qbX2x for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 19:29:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.137] (g231110232.adsl.alicedsl.de [92.231.110.232]) (Authenticated sender: daniel@troeder.de) by mx01.admin-box.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 40BAB34AAB26 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 19:29:21 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4CA76BF0.8040800@admin-box.com> Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:29:20 +0200 From: Daniel Troeder User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100929 Thunderbird/3.1.4 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed? References: <201009301853.28825.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <4CA5A440.80601@admin-box.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=BB9D4887; url=http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de/pks/lookup?search=0xBB9D4887&op=get Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig21B912FD136914F6E1A2ABB7" X-Archives-Salt: 171cc745-e670-4707-91c9-45d96804c4f0 X-Archives-Hash: c9f45b4adbf3f59b5579da8738c02869 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig21B912FD136914F6E1A2ABB7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 10/01/2010 04:40 PM, James wrote: > Daniel Troeder admin-box.com> writes: >=20 >=20 >> 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. >=20 > What tool(how) did you setup btrfs? > As I'm going to use it (test it) on an old=20 > drive (system), with / /boot and swap all > using btrfs......... >=20 > Fdisk(gentoo_handbook)?=20 >=20 > What would a grub entry look like? >=20 > /etc/fstab ? >=20 > Other affected files? >=20 > Well, I'm going to take the BTRFS plung. Any words > of wisdom, howto's or caveats are most welcome. >=20 >=20 > 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 --=20 PGP key @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de/pks/lookup?search=3D0xBB9D4887&op=3Dg= et # gpg --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net 0xBB9D4887 --------------enig21B912FD136914F6E1A2ABB7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyna/AACgkQg3+4tbudSIeX+ACgl8Eds7E7KDZyBs3sfuz7Bm/5 eT4AoKIPDK34BUey8iyQQO6U4XvoWwq8 =vFgo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig21B912FD136914F6E1A2ABB7--