On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Chris Samuel <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Nov 2013 07:32:43 AM Avi Miller wrote:
> > We've also just released our Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3 for
> > Oracle Linux 6 (x86_64), which is based on the 3.8 mainline and contains
> > significant btrfs improvements over the previous 3.0-based UEK2.
> 
> You don't want to be using anything earlier than 3.10 if you are using
> snapshots and defrag as that's when the snapshot aware defrag code landed.

Fortunately I have no great interest in defrag.  Currently the only systems I 
run which have disk performance problems are mail servers and with an average 
message size of 60K I don't think that fragmentation is going to be a big 
problem.

> Also note there is some angst about occasional 3.11 and 3.12 btrfs
> filesystem corruption due to a bug relating to doing a rebalance when
> defrag is happening, the patch you would need is from Liu Bo and is
> called:

Also a rebalance when running systemd causes problems with all the recent 
versions, something about the way it pre-allocates space for it's log files.

3.11 has problems with removing dozens of snapshots at the same time.

> It's labelled an experimental filesystem for a reason.. ;-)

Yes, but unfortunately the non-experimental filesystems either lack the data 
integrity features or are "experimental" in other ways (IE ZFS).

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