Rich Freeman wrote: > 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 > >
Well, I really don't have enough time to read up and get to know the commands and such either. I guess I better stick with LVM, for now at least. When I get another drive, I could always switch then and maybe it will be more stable then as well. Maybe. Thanks for sharing the info. Dale :-) :-)
