Re: partition question

2013-01-16 Thread David Sterba
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:38:45PM +, Hugo Mills wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 03:34:25PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: Swap still needs to be on a separate partition, as I don't think Btrfs is supporting swapfiles yet still, but maybe someone else can comment on the status of that.

Re: partition question

2013-01-14 Thread dima
I don't know this area of the code at all well, but as I understand it, there's been some work in the kernel (swap over NFS) which lays down some of the underlying infrastructure we'd need to support swapfiles on btrfs, but we don't have anything beyond that. I don't know of anyone working on

Re: partition question

2013-01-12 Thread Roelof Wobben
Op 11-1-2013 23:38, Hugo Mills schreef: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 03:34:25PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: On Jan 11, 2013, at 12:21 PM, Roelof Wobben r.wob...@home.nl wrote: I have one thing I think I don't really understand about btrfs, Normally if I use ext4 I make a 3 partitions for my

partition question

2013-01-11 Thread Roelof Wobben
Hello, I have one thing I think I don't really understand about btrfs, Normally if I use ext4 I make a 3 partitions for my distro. one for boot about 1G one for home about 30G one for root for the rest of my 100G. Now I wonder if I want to do the same with btrfs. Can I do the same so make 3

Re: partition question

2013-01-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 11, 2013, at 12:21 PM, Roelof Wobben r.wob...@home.nl wrote: Hello, I have one thing I think I don't really understand about btrfs, Normally if I use ext4 I make a 3 partitions for my distro. one for boot about 1G one for home about 30G one for root for the rest of my 100G.

Re: partition question

2013-01-11 Thread Hugo Mills
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 03:34:25PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: On Jan 11, 2013, at 12:21 PM, Roelof Wobben r.wob...@home.nl wrote: I have one thing I think I don't really understand about btrfs, Normally if I use ext4 I make a 3 partitions for my distro. one for boot about 1G one