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 -- PGP key @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de/pks/lookup?search=0xBB9D4887&op=get # gpg --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net 0xBB9D4887
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