That is very informative Nelson. Thank you. I tried with a new snapshot and it works very well. Alongside that, I am curious and would like to learn about the BBB conversion from ext4 to flash filesystem. Are there any documentation/manual online that could explain/hint/guide through the filesystem conversion from ext4 to flash filesystem like btrfs?
Thanks, On Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 4:00:40 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 2:41 PM, Mone <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > I am using 3.8.13-bone28 Beaglebone Black. In order to have faster > > operation, I am looking to switch root partition to btrfs i.e. mmcblk0p2 > as > > below: > > > > NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT > > mmcblk0 179:0 0 7.5G 0 disk > > ├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 48M 0 part /boot/uboot > > └─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 3.3G 0 part / > > faster operation where is that stated? Depending on how old your > "distro" is, btrfs can be slower. (apt will be slow, dpkg sync calls) > > I'm looking at is for it's native compression, and the possibility of > improved reliability over ext4 in systems where power get's yanked. > > > Having gone through the thread: > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/btrfs|sort:date/beagleboard/R8nlIwEYFfM/mdYBADymAAAJ > > > , it seems like there has been recent enabling of BBB support for btrfs > > filesystem. > > Right now, all "buster-iot" images are btrfs by default on the weekly > builds.. > > > However, I was wondering if this support is only applied to > > 4.x.x kernel or would it also work with the kernel I am using? > > 3.8.x had it enabled: > > CONFIG_BTRFS_FS=y > CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y > # CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_CHECK_INTEGRITY is not set > > > If so, is it > > as simple as just changing mmcrootfstype=btrfs rootwait in uEnv.txt? > > Nope.. There's a few more things you have to do manually... > > Just grab a newer weekly snapshot, don't waste time trying to directly > convert that old image your running. > > Regards, > > -- > Robert Nelson > https://rcn-ee.com/ > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/697e61fc-dd1b-42ef-addf-3e3fd2c6ef1a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
