Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-24 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 01/23/2013 03:53 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 12:08 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: Mistakenly left this paragraph incomplete, completion follows: I understand that btrfs is a Different Way Of Doing Things, but I don't think it flies to tell people 'yeah, the tools you've

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-24 Thread Reartes Guillermo
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/22555 (Quota reached: can't delete) When you reach a quota limit, the first intuitive action one takes is to delete something to make space. But aparently (and currently) with btrfs one needs to change the quota and then delete. I have not

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 12:36 -0300, Reartes Guillermo wrote: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/22555 (Quota reached: can't delete) When you reach a quota limit, the first intuitive action one takes is to delete something to make space. But aparently (and currently) with

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 24, 2013, at 5:44 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: Just about everything in btrfs is really different :) I'm still wrapping my head around it too. But as far as possible, the 'legacy' tools should show something as accurate and useful as they can, I believe. For mount,

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 19:56 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: On Jan 24, 2013, at 5:44 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: Just about everything in btrfs is really different :) I'm still wrapping my head around it too. But as far as possible, the 'legacy' tools should show

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 24, 2013, at 8:27 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: Well that's not the one I was thinking of, actually - I believe I was hit by cases where some subvols use redundancy, in which case df goes completely wrong. I'd have to re-install and re-check to be sure of exactly

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 24, 2013, at 9:30 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: 2x 80GB virtual disks, mkfs.btrfs -d raid1 -m raid1: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb160G 56K 158G 1% /mnt Also, copying a 1G file to /mnt, and I end up with: # df -h

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 09:53 +0100, Jochen Schmitt wrote: Hallo, for Fedora 17 we had a feature to make btrfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora. This feature was defered because the fsck utitlities for btrfs was not available on the stable state for Fedora 17. So, I would like to ask,

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 12:08 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: Mistakenly left this paragraph incomplete, completion follows: I understand that btrfs is a Different Way Of Doing Things, but I don't think it flies to tell people 'yeah, the tools you've relied on for simple info on filesystems for

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-19 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:57:38 +0100, Rahul Sundaram wrote: I wouldn't read it that rigidly. Its more along the lines of, its more helpful to file bug reports and post them for discussions because its easier to keep track of. I have already filed enough stopper Bugs for btrfs and nothing

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-19 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/19/2013 10:25 AM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: I am aware the best way to fix known Bugs is ... to just fix those Bugs. Maybe I am pronouncing the obvious, but I am wondering, whether you guys have a required feature list and a regression test-suite? At least to me, having both and

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-19 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Friday, January 18, 2013 10:55:23 Przemek Klosowski wrote: I used btrfs on my personal desktop for about a year now and it works fine for me, other than a nagging suspicion that there's an occasional performance problem at high load. Yes, this is familiar. I too have used it for over a

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-19 Thread Gene Czarcinski
On 01/16/2013 12:18 PM, Josef Bacik wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Jochen Schmitt joc...@herr-schmitt.de mailto:joc...@herr-schmitt.de wrote: Hallo, for Fedora 17 we had a feature to make btrfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora. This feature was defered because the

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-19 Thread Matej Cepl
On 18/01/13 16:12, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: The most helpful approach would be provide bug reports, when btrfs will be proposed as a default file system (again). Without bug reports, real numbers etc. is hard to make any decision. I don't wish to test on my machine, so I would be glad for hard

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-18 Thread Marcela Mašláňová
On 01/18/2013 01:00 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Marc Deop Argemí m...@marcdeop.com wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2013 12:18:19 Richard W.M. Jones wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689127 (performance problem with virtual machines) I

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-18 Thread Ian Malone
On 18 January 2013 01:19, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/17/2013 07:00 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Yes, I'd veto btrfs as the default as well. I lost a huge chunk of data on a btrfs partition a while back, with *no* diagnostics, recovery tools, help from Google, etc.

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-18 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 01/17/2013 08:19 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 01/17/2013 07:00 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Yes, I'd veto btrfs as the default as well. I lost a huge chunk of data on a btrfs partition a while back, with *no* diagnostics, .. You don't have the power to veto it although highlighting

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/18/2013 10:50 AM, Ian Malone wrote: I suggest sdfs as the new default filesystem, you cannot veto it, but highlighting critical bugs will be beneficial. Please post bugzilla links rather than descriptions of the issues. Or: Bugs are not a replacement for discussion. A discussion by

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-18 Thread Ian Malone
On 18 January 2013 17:19, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/18/2013 10:50 AM, Ian Malone wrote: I suggest sdfs as the new default filesystem, you cannot veto it, but highlighting critical bugs will be beneficial. Please post bugzilla links rather than descriptions of the issues.

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Ian Malone wrote: Or in other words, don't bring up anything here unless it's not in bugzilla, if it's not in bugzilla go and put it there before we'll discuss it. I wouldn't read it that rigidly. Its more along the lines of, its more helpful to file

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:14:32PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: Has anyone tested subvolid=xxx works for rootfs yet? I know GRUB 2 will not resolve subvolid, it essentially treats subvols as folders, but does it only with pathnames, not ID number. If fstab uses subvolid for boot, then boot

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-17 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 01/16/2013 11:41 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 01/16/2013 04:23 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: On 1/16/13 10:04 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Jan Kratochvil jan.kratoch...@redhat.com mailto:jan.kratoch...@redhat.com wrote: It affects also compilation,

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-17 Thread Marc Deop Argemí
On Wednesday 16 January 2013 12:18:19 Richard W.M. Jones wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689127 (performance problem with virtual machines) I must add that, in my experience, the performance is *bad* not only in virtual machines but in the whole user experience (I've been

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-17 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Marc Deop Argemí m...@marcdeop.com wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2013 12:18:19 Richard W.M. Jones wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689127 (performance problem with virtual machines) I must add that, in my experience, the performance is *bad*

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/17/2013 07:00 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Yes, I'd veto btrfs as the default as well. I lost a huge chunk of data on a btrfs partition a while back, with *no* diagnostics, recovery tools, help from Google, etc. Screw speed - unless it's rock solid and *simple* to back up, maintain,

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 09:53:25AM +0100, Jochen Schmitt wrote: Hallo, for Fedora 17 we had a feature to make btrfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora. This feature was defered because the fsck utitlities for btrfs was not available on the stable state for Fedora 17. So, I would like

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:18:19 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: So there are a couple of issues with btrfs which I believe absolutely must be fixed before it can become the default (both affect virtualization, coincidentally): It affects also compilation, GDB was rebuilding for 10-15 minutes

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Jan Kratochvil jan.kratoch...@redhat.comwrote: It affects also compilation, GDB was rebuilding for 10-15 minutes instead of 1 minute. I have provided even a reproducer for 1sec vs. 1min issue. The Bug just got automatically closed without any human reply as

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 1/16/13 10:04 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Jan Kratochvil jan.kratoch...@redhat.com mailto:jan.kratoch...@redhat.com wrote: It affects also compilation, GDB was rebuilding for 10-15 minutes instead of 1 minute. I have provided even a

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/16/2013 04:23 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: On 1/16/13 10:04 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Jan Kratochvil jan.kratoch...@redhat.com mailto:jan.kratoch...@redhat.com wrote: It affects also compilation, GDB was rebuilding for 10-15 minutes instead of

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Afik Josef just left Red Hat not Fedora... I haven't seen any recent activity in Fedora from him. Have you? Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Clyde E. Kunkel
On 01/16/2013 12:00 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: snip I haven't seen any recent activity in Fedora from him. Have you? Rahul Some patches on the btrfs list on Jan 7 and 8, 2013. -- Regards, OldFart -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Reartes Guillermo
I am testing btrfs on kvm guest, currently i have found: * Bug 894837 - Transient / Intermittent ENOSPC errors with BTRFS and F18 (btrfs gives no space left on device at full or near full filesystem and heavy io, for example deleting stuff to reclaim space.) -- devel mailing list

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Josef Bacik
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Afik Josef just left Red Hat not Fedora... I haven't seen any recent activity in Fedora from him. Have you? Did you see consistent activity in

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Josef Bacik
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Jochen Schmitt joc...@herr-schmitt.dewrote: Hallo, for Fedora 17 we had a feature to make btrfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora. This feature was defered because the fsck utitlities for btrfs was not available on the stable state for Fedora 17. So, I

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Zach Brown
So there are a couple of issues with btrfs which I believe absolutely must be fixed before it can become the default I'd agree, though I'd have a different list of pet bugs. But that's a subjective judgement. I'd be the first to admit that I'm pretty risk averse, especially when it comes to

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Zach Brown z...@zabbo.net wrote: So there are a couple of issues with btrfs which I believe absolutely must be fixed before it can become the default I'd agree, though I'd have a different list of pet bugs. But that's a subjective judgement. I'd be the first

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:12:34AM -0800, Zach Brown wrote: So there are a couple of issues with btrfs which I believe absolutely must be fixed before it can become the default I'd agree, though I'd have a different list of pet bugs. But that's a subjective judgement. I'd be the first to

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:18:37 -0500 Josef Bacik jo...@toxicpanda.com wrote: I'm waiting until Anaconda settles down before I pursue btrfs in Fedora again. Things change too much and Btrfs is too reliant on the anaconda part working properly to even bother trying to push it through at this

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Josef Bacik
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.comwrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:12:34AM -0800, Zach Brown wrote: So there are a couple of issues with btrfs which I believe absolutely must be fixed before it can become the default I'd agree, though I'd have a

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 03:36:10PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.comwrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:12:34AM -0800, Zach Brown wrote: So there are a couple of issues with btrfs which I believe absolutely must be fixed

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Álvaro Castillo
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.comwrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 03:36:10PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:12:34AM -0800, Zach Brown wrote: So there

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread William Brown
On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 13:17 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:18:37 -0500 Josef Bacik jo...@toxicpanda.com wrote: I'm waiting until Anaconda settles down before I pursue btrfs in Fedora again. Things change too much and Btrfs is too reliant on the anaconda part working

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:46:34 +1030 William Brown will...@firstyear.id.au wrote: Did the root volume (/) Go into it's own subvolume, or is root just in /? If root isn't placed into a subvolume, say /root then mounted as /dev/sda1 subvolid=255 / lets say, you can't snapshot the root fs,

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 07:46 +1030, William Brown wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 13:17 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:18:37 -0500 Josef Bacik jo...@toxicpanda.com wrote: I'm waiting until Anaconda settles down before I pursue btrfs in Fedora again. Things change too

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Josh Stone
On 01/16/2013 01:16 PM, William Brown wrote: If root isn't placed into a subvolume, say /root then mounted as /dev/sda1 subvolid=255 / lets say, you can't snapshot the root fs, which defeats the whole point of using btrfs . Yes you can -- the btrfs wiki even has this example: mount -t

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread William Brown
ID 258 gen 56580 top level 5 path FS_TREE/root I take it then that subvolid 258 is marked as / in your fstab? -- Sincerely, William Brown pgp.mit.edu http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindexsearch=0x3C0AC6DAB2F928A2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:13:07 +1030 William Brown will...@firstyear.id.au wrote: ID 258 gen 56580 top level 5 path FS_TREE/root I take it then that subvolid 258 is marked as / in your fstab? yes, via a subvol=root fstab entry. kevin signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 09:53:25AM +0100, Jochen Schmitt wrote: Hallo, for Fedora 17 we had a feature to make btrfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora. This feature was defered because the fsck utitlities for

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Reartes Guillermo
To make BTRFS (or any new file-system) the default for a distribution will be really hard. My thought on the subject: -1. IS IT STILL DESIRED TO MAKE BTRFS THE DEFAULT FILE-SYSTEM FOR FEDORA AT SOME (yet unknown) POINT IN THE FUTURE? 0. DETERMINE A ROOT FILE-SYSTEM CRITERIA (AND/OR a DEFAULT FS

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 16, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: I thought one of the biggest blockers was the lack of a complete and stable fsck implementation for it. I think this is a poor metric for outsiders to require. ZFS has been stable for some time and does not have an fsck.