On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 09:37 +1000, Adam Carter wrote:
Btrfs supports on the fly compression
Yes it supports two types, lzo and zlib, zlib compresses more densely,
and the mount option for that is compress=zlib.
Is it reliable?
A month ago I returned all my BTRFS partitions to reiserfs
Is it reliable?
So far so go for me. I'm using lzo on my main partition and zlib on
/home and on an external drive i use for backup.
A month ago I returned all my BTRFS partitions to reiserfs because of
unfixable errors. Initially I was quite impressed, but until the tools
catch up with
2.6.37 on one machine, and 2.6.39 on the other - those two corrupted
during bad shutdowns whilst writing to the FS (well, I am bad for
triggering the remote power OFF :)
Its not the corruption that was the issue, but that a wipe, reformat and
reload was the only fix. Cant remember the exact
Hi,
Is there any way to create some kind of on the fly compressed
filesystem for backup purposes? My files are getting bigger and bigger
but my external drive stays the same :)
Thanks
Laszlo
On 08/31/2011 09:20 PM, Space Cake wrote:
Hi,
Is there any way to create some kind of on the fly compressed
filesystem for backup purposes? My files are getting bigger and bigger
but my external drive stays the same :)
Btrfs supports on the fly compression
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Nilesh Govindarajan
On 08/31/2011 09:51 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
On 08/31/2011 09:20 PM, Space Cake wrote:
Hi,
Is there any way to create some kind of on the fly compressed
filesystem for backup purposes? My files are getting bigger and bigger
but my external drive stays the same :)
Btrfs supports on
Btrfs supports on the fly compression
Yes it supports two types, lzo and zlib, zlib compresses more densely,
and the mount option for that is compress=zlib.
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 3 Jan, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem.
I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems,
so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date.
Perhaps you could try
On 3 Jan, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem.
I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems,
so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date.
Perhaps you could try venti+fossil or git.
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem.
I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems,
so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date.
Perhaps you could try venti+fossil or git.
cu
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On Donnerstag 31 Dezember 2009, Dale wrote:
Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 12/30/2009 8:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:12:29 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
I had to hard reset the
system and look at the logs. The only problem was that the logs had the
wrong contents because
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Donnerstag 31 Dezember 2009, Dale wrote:
Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 12/30/2009 8:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:12:29 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
I had to hard reset the
system and look at the logs. The only problem was
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Donnerstag 31 Dezember 2009, Dale wrote:
Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 12/30/2009 8:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:12:29 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
I had to hard reset the
system and look at the logs. The only problem was
Am 30.12.2009 00:08, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
would you recommend it over ext4 for a productive root-fs, considering
speed and safety ?
just think a moment of the tons of bug fixes constantly going into ext4. That
crap is not stable. Pre-alpha maybe.
hmm, thanks for that thought
On 30 Dec 2009, at 00:17, Albert Hopkins wrote:
... The only problem I've had
since then is one time it would not mount on boot. I merely had to
fsck
it from a live media an then it was ok (nothing SEEMED lost or
currupted).
Fixed this for you.
Stroller.
On 12/29/2009 7:17 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 00:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
just think a moment of the tons of bug fixes constantly going into
ext4. That
crap is not stable. Pre-alpha maybe.
People say this from time to time, yet I have been running
On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 12/29/2009 7:17 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 00:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
just think a moment of the tons of bug fixes constantly going into
ext4. That
crap is not stable. Pre-alpha maybe.
People say
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:12:29 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
I had to hard reset the
system and look at the logs. The only problem was that the logs had the
wrong contents because they had been written to but not actually
flushed to the disk, and it took me about 10 hard resets to figure that
On 12/30/2009 8:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:12:29 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
I had to hard reset the
system and look at the logs. The only problem was that the logs had the
wrong contents because they had been written to but not actually
flushed to the disk, and it
Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 12/30/2009 8:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:12:29 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
I had to hard reset the
system and look at the logs. The only problem was that the logs had the
wrong contents because they had been written to but not actually
flushed
On 28 Dec, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Montag 28 Dezember 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem.
I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems,
so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date.
I've come across
On Dienstag 29 Dezember 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 28 Dec, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Montag 28 Dezember 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem.
I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems,
so that
On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Am 29.12.2009 14:04, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
I do no know btrfs. But there are two nice things about reiser4:
it takes your data seriously. It tries everything to make sure your data
hit the platter. Device does not support
Am 29.12.2009 14:04, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
I do no know btrfs. But there are two nice things about reiser4:
it takes your data seriously. It tries everything to make sure your data hit
the platter. Device does not support barriers? Reiser4 detects that and goes
into sync mode.
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 00:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
just think a moment of the tons of bug fixes constantly going into
ext4. That
crap is not stable. Pre-alpha maybe.
People say this from time to time, yet I have been running ext4 on my
root directory of my laptop since July 2008.
On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 00:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
just think a moment of the tons of bug fixes constantly going into
ext4. That
crap is not stable. Pre-alpha maybe.
People say this from time to time, yet I have been running
Hi,
I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem.
I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems,
so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date.
I've come across CompFused which seems to be just what I'm looking for,
but it's buggy not maintained anymore.
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:58:13 +0100 (CET)
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem.
I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems,
so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date.
I've come
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 12:58 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem.
I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems,
so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date.
I've come across CompFused which seems to be just
On Montag 28 Dezember 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem.
I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems,
so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date.
I've come across CompFused which seems to be just what
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