On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Swâmi Petaramesh <[email protected]> wrote: > However shifting from ext3 to BTRFS has been enough to turn my perfectly > stable system into a perfectly unstable and crash-prone system :-/
Well, first of all, btrfs is still under heavy development. Add to that the fact that you use Ubuntu Natty, which also have some known bugs. There should be some hints there on what the outcome would be :P Anyway, I'm using linux-image-2.6.38-9-generic from natty-proposed, with btrfs as "/", separate /boot/grub on ext4, and Corsair Force SSD. It works great so far. If you're used to ext4 speed, then you'll notice that btrfs is considerably slower. That's why I use SSD to add some I/O speed (currently booting to gnome classic desktop only takes about 30 seconds). So in summary, if you have problems but still want to try btrfs, try upgrading your kernel. If you think it's too slow to be usable, then the best you can try right now is use SSD. -- Fajar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
