On 12-02-25 09:10 PM, Fahrzin Hemmati wrote: > btrfs is horrible for small filesystems (like a 5GB drive). df -h says > you have 967MB available,
So does dd. It manages to write that 967MB before getting an ENOSPC. > but btrfs (at least by default) allocates 1GB > at a time to data/metadata. Bleah. > This means that your 10MB file It's a package of kernel headers so not a 10MB file but 10MB of lots of small files, so heavy metadata allocation. > is too big > for the current allocation and requires a new data chunk, or another > 1GB, which you don't have. I see. > Others might know of a way of changing the allocation size to less than > 1GB, but otherwise I recommend switching to something more stable like > ext4/reiserfs/etc. So btrfs is still not yet suitable to be a root/usr/var filesystem, even in kernel 3.0.0? b.
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