On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm thinking of something tho. Btrfs. While I have a new drive with no > file system on it, it's a good time to think on switching from LVM. > Hmmmmmmm. I'm currently on gentoo-sources 3.14.
I think btrfs is usable, but not without its problems. I don't think I'd run it without a daily backup onto something that doesn't run btrfs. I'm running btrfs in raid1 configuration, and I've only restored from the backup once, though if I didn't have it I probably could have still recovered (ENOSPC issue - the usual solutions weren't working). Earlier this week I was having lockup issues (I tried to re-enable snapper and deleting a few snapshots at once caused it to stop syncing, and then for several days any kind of heavy write activity would cause the issue to repeat, which I suspect was the result of delayed cleanup). Rich
