Am 19.05.2014 13:01, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
The page you linked to does not actually state that. There are plenty of
hints and sideways references but little concrete information about what
is safe with the current release - hence my question.
Oh it does, just take a look at that section:
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Files with a lot of random writes can become heavily fragmented (10000+
extents) causing trashing on HDDs and excessive multi-second spikes of
CPU load on systems with an SSD or large amount a RAM.
* On servers and workstations this affects databases and virtual
^^^^^^^
machine images.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* The nodatacow mount option may be of use here, with associated gotchas.
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So they still do not recommend putting virtual machine images on a Btrfs
(if you want it in productional use, that is).
