Re: [beagleboard] btrfs filesystem instead of ext4

2018-02-02 Thread Daniel Kulp
There are definitely still problems with btrfs compression and uboot. If I take this image, update /etc/fstab to add compress=zlib, reboot to remount, and then run "btrfs fi defrag -c -r /" to compress the full filesystem, then it refuses to boot. All I see on the console is "starting the k

Re: [beagleboard] btrfs filesystem instead of ext4

2018-01-31 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:28 PM, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 01/02/18 12:20, Robert Nelson wrote: >>> Actually U-Boot has btrfs support as of v2018.01 (even ZLIB >>> compression! lzo is broken). >>> >>> We got a patch merged in v2018.03-rc1 that fixes (lzo compression..) >> if you want to give it

Re: [beagleboard] btrfs filesystem instead of ext4

2018-01-31 Thread Stuart Longland
On 01/02/18 12:20, Robert Nelson wrote: >> Actually U-Boot has btrfs support as of v2018.01 (even ZLIB >> compression! lzo is broken). >> >> We got a patch merged in v2018.03-rc1 that fixes (lzo compression..) > if you want to give it a go, use this base image: > > https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org

Re: [beagleboard] btrfs filesystem instead of ext4

2018-01-31 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:18 PM, Robert Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Stuart Longland > wrote: >> On 01/02/18 10:07, Mone wrote: >>> I tried with a new snapshot and it works very well. Alongside that, I am >>> curious and would like to learn about the BBB conversion from ext4 t

Re: [beagleboard] btrfs filesystem instead of ext4

2018-01-31 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 01/02/18 10:07, Mone wrote: >> I tried with a new snapshot and it works very well. Alongside that, I am >> curious and would like to learn about the BBB conversion from ext4 to >> flash filesystem. Are there any documentation/manual onli

Re: [beagleboard] btrfs filesystem instead of ext4

2018-01-31 Thread Stuart Longland
On 01/02/18 10:07, Mone wrote: > I tried with a new snapshot and it works very well. Alongside that, I am > curious and would like to learn about the BBB conversion from ext4 to > flash filesystem. Are there any documentation/manual online that could > explain/hint/guide through the filesystem  con

Re: [beagleboard] btrfs filesystem instead of ext4

2018-01-31 Thread Mone
That is very informative Nelson. Thank you. I tried with a new snapshot and it works very well. Alongside that, I am curious and would like to learn about the BBB conversion from ext4 to flash filesystem. Are there any documentation/manual online that could explain/hint/guide through the filesy

Re: [beagleboard] btrfs filesystem instead of ext4

2018-01-31 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 2:41 PM, Mone <4real4s...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am using 3.8.13-bone28 Beaglebone Black. In order to have faster > operation, I am looking to switch root partition to btrfs i.e. mmcblk0p2 as > below: > > NAMEMAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT > mmcblk0 179:0