On Monday, December 11, 2017 at 4:18:31 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote:
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> btrfs got added in u-boot v2017.11... ;) 
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> https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/0c936ee3194ac5b533a18fcd08e5d285853af5fe#diff-09d710108823b360adf225b17cef57f9
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> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fu-boot%2Fu-boot%2Fcommit%2F0c936ee3194ac5b533a18fcd08e5d285853af5fe%23diff-09d710108823b360adf225b17cef57f9&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHaw-slA_U9PY3BOzqpXdRN2Caj4Q>
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Hmm... I couldn't get it to work.   I could never get it to actually find 
any of the files on the btrfs root.    I'll try again.    It would 
certainly simplify things.
 

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> > For my app, this leaves well over 2GB of free space on the eMMC as 
> compared 
> > to about 500MB before.   Performance is about the same.     Anyway, I 
> > thought I'd share it with others in case they want to try it out, play 
> with 
> > it, suggest enhancements, etc.... 
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> Careful around v4.14.x+ "I" dropped btrfs, it saves a good second or 
> two on bootup, from all the raid6 calculations that are done. (if we 
> could force it to always use one mode, and thus not waste bootup time, 
> i'll gladly reenable it) 
>

Ick... That would be REALLY bad for me.   I've switch over to btrfs on 
pretty much all my beaglebones, even on the SD cards.      The files I have 
are large (>500MB) but highly compressible so it's much faster to read them 
from btrfs than ext4.    That said, I'm still on 4.4 as we use uio-pruss 
for working with the PRU's and have not plans/desire to change that (and 
last I looked, there were issues with it on 4.9+, maybe those issues are 
now fixed).

For me, an extra second or two on a bootup that takes almost 75 seconds is 
irrelevant when the beaglebone is up for weeks/months on end.  

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