On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 01:00:37PM -0800, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > I found the tc9 dvd image download, did what any Fedora biggot did, > downloaded it, and wiped out a small hard disk that I keep for playing > around. > > The TC9 is the penultimate iso before the iso file is released at month end. > UEFI is a problem for Fedora, as it is for the Linux Foundation and for your > favourite distribution, (SUSE seems to have it right). > > In setting the installer, one of the selection panels refers to disks and > file systems. I chose the default and after some thought, chose btfrs. The > installation was uneventful. > > After installation, there is the reboot to complete initialization. The > reboot felt faster than booting Ubuntu on the same hardware system with > ext4. (I have 4 Linux distributions arranged on two drives). The drive with > Ubuntu is faster than the one I used for F18. > F18 and btfrs appears even faster than Fedora 17, also on that system. > > For those that are curious, because of btfrs, the system feels faster. > Gnome on F18 is heavily optimized (so they say), and I noticed speed > improvements. > > All the F18 applications from the pre-beta that I tested, work just fine.In > the next few days I will try to add all the codecs and other fine stuff that > I use. > > Yeah, since 2004, I've stuck to Fedora. Even with all the Selinux headaches. > Always enjoyed using Fedora. > > Always found the libdvdcss and other non-free codecs and stuff. I will be > testing the btfrs features to see if I can undo an installation. If so, > wonderful, if I can't, it will be to stay with ext4 and lvm.
I've been wondering about the ability of btrfs to recover from file-system daamge -- such as that caused by software bugs, unexpected power failures, and deteriorating disk blocks. Do you know anything on that? I've heard that reiserfs (another tree-based file system) was terrible on that count. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
