[gentoo-user] Is Btrfs stable enough?

2011-09-21 Thread Jarry
Hi, I'd like to ask if anybody here has already some experience with Btrfs? Is it usable (although not officialy stable)? I'd like to swich ext3 for something more modern, and none of JFS/ZFS/Reiser/ext4 has all the features I'm looking for. Btrfs looks interesting, but I'm not sure if it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Btrfs stable enough?

2011-09-21 Thread Doug Hunley
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 15:48, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'd like to ask if anybody here has already some experience with Btrfs? Is it usable (although not officialy stable)? I'd like to swich ext3 for something more modern, and none of JFS/ZFS/Reiser/ext4 has all the features I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Btrfs stable enough?

2011-09-21 Thread Jarry
On 21-Sep-11 21:55, Doug Hunley wrote: I'd like to ask if anybody here has already some experience with Btrfs? Is it usable (although not officialy stable)? I use it as my main fs here and have had no issues. Having said that, there is NO functional fsck at this time. And abrupt power issues

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Btrfs stable enough?

2011-09-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:12:35 +0200, Jarry wrote: Really no fsck? I've heard fedora was going to use btrfs as main filesystem in upcomming release 16 (to be released in about a month). How could they do it without fsck? They can't, that's why they've postponed it until until 17. Btrfs will be

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Btrfs stable enough?

2011-09-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: On 21-Sep-11 21:55, Doug Hunley wrote: I'd like to ask if anybody here has already some experience with Btrfs? Is it usable (although not officialy stable)? I use it as my main fs here and have had no issues. Having said that, there is NO functional fsck at this time. And

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Btrfs stable enough?

2011-09-21 Thread William Kenworthy
Tried it one FS to test - looked good tried it on a few file systems - seemed to take punishment that killed the ext2/3 FS every time Then every one died within a month with unrecoverable errors of one type or another (power crash caused corruption that couldnt be fixed, unknown problems, long

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Btrfs stable enough?

2011-09-21 Thread Adam Carter
Ok for me so far, but still seems slower than ext4, and i'm using compression, inode_cache and space_cache. However, I wouldn't use it on a system i didn't have a backup for.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Btrfs stable enough?

2011-09-21 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: Ok for me so far, but still seems slower than ext4, and i'm using compression, inode_cache and space_cache. Does ext4 have compression? I didn't know it did. If it doesn't, then, yeah, you're adding some serious overhead

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Btrfs stable enough?

2011-09-21 Thread Adam Carter
Ok for me so far, but still seems slower than ext4, and i'm using compression, inode_cache and space_cache. Does ext4 have compression? I didn't know it did. If it doesn't, then, yeah, you're adding some serious overhead and real latency. Sorry I wasn't clear. Compression, inode_cache and

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Btrfs stable enough?

2011-09-21 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: Ok for me so far, but still seems slower than ext4, and i'm using compression, inode_cache and space_cache. Does ext4 have compression? I didn't know it did. If it doesn't, then, yeah, you're adding some serious