Re: [Hampshire] Btrfs

2011-11-03 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:24:00 +0100, ichaud...@gmail.com said: Sounds promising but my concerns were bugs as not as mature as ext3/4 If you are comfortable with losing data then by all means run beta software. If you're not comfortable with that, don't. Currently, it looks as if Oracle Linux

Re: [Hampshire] Btrfs

2011-10-29 Thread Jonathan Hudson
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:24:00 +0100, Imran Chaudhry wrote: On 25 September 2011 21:10, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: Has anyone tried btrfs? The ability to stripe and mirror data across disks of varying sizes really appeals. I understand it is not production ready, but sounds really

Re: [Hampshire] Btrfs

2011-10-28 Thread Imran Chaudhry
On 25 September 2011 21:10, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: Has anyone tried btrfs? The ability to stripe and mirror data across disks of varying sizes really appeals. I understand it is not production ready, but sounds really promising. Anton No replies? I was curious about this

[Hampshire] Btrfs

2011-09-25 Thread Anton Piatek
Has anyone tried btrfs? The ability to stripe and mirror data across disks of varying sizes really appeals. I understand it is not production ready, but sounds really promising. Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com gpg: [74B1FA37] (http://

Re: [Hampshire] btrfs (was: Re: Home NAS with Raid?)

2011-02-15 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 03:48:35PM -, Vic wrote: I have a 6-volume btrfs filesystem(*) What does btrfs give you? I've read quite a bit of hype about it, but I really don't know what it does :-) It manages the filesystem across multiple underlying block devices, including