On 5/12/2010 17:38, David Austin wrote:
My two cents' worth as a N900 owner: I feel that the advantages of btrfs
far outweigh the costs even on a platform like the N900. Losing 30%
of storage space is not pretty but the /opt "solution" is an ugly hack
that has wasted considerable dev time and could be neatly sidestepped
by btrfs.
Also, if btrfs is the preferred filesystem for MeeGo then future devices
will have better configurations to support it. It's pretty clear that the
N900 is going to be the minimum (or worst) hardware that MeeGo will
run on. We have to expect that the N900 will suffer a little because
of that.
and again.. we're working with the upstream developers to reduce this "cost".
Most of it is a pessimistic estimation of how much space is needed, to be on
the safe side no matter
what.
The estimation algorithms have been improved in the development tree for btrfs,
and we're looking
at how/if to backport this optimization to MeeGo 1.0.
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