Re: Anyone tried out btrbk yet?

2015-07-15 Thread Sander
incremental since, and then every hourly since the youngest daily, if applicable. tar incremental restore is smart, and removes the files and directories that were removed between backups. Sander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message

Re: btrfs subvolume clone or fork (btrfs-progs feature request)

2015-07-09 Thread Sander
Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote (ao): On 2015-07-09 08:41, Sander wrote: Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote (ao): What's wrong with btrfs subvolume snapshot? Well, personally I would say the fact that once something is tagged as a snapshot, you can't change it to a regular subvolume without doing a non

Re: btrfs subvolume clone or fork (btrfs-progs feature request)

2015-07-09 Thread Sander
. There is no such thing as tagged as a snapshot. Sander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: BTRFS: read error corrected: ino 1 off 226840576 (dev /dev/mapper/dshelf1 sector 459432)

2015-06-17 Thread Sander
, used=0.00B I'll do a scrub later, for now I have to wait 20 hours for the raid rebuild first. You'll probably find that the rebuild is equivalent to a scrub anyway. He has mdadm raid, which is rebuilding. This is obviously not equivalent to a btrfs scrub. Sander -- To unsubscribe

Re: possible raid6 corruption

2015-06-02 Thread Sander
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home server (was: Re: Kernel oops: 17 on PREEMPT ARM when scrubbing)

2015-05-19 Thread Sander
(AMD), but I'm pretty much done waiting. Sander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: corruption in USB harddrive - backup via send/receive - question

2015-04-20 Thread Sander
on top, and is used as a home server. The third ssd is plain btrfs, and used for backup archives. Sander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: directory defrag

2015-04-14 Thread Sander
{} + Would that work for you? Sander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Understanding btrfs and backups

2014-03-07 Thread Sander
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Re: correct way to rollback a root filesystem?

2014-01-07 Thread Sander
(rename) the last known good snapshot to 'rootvolume'. Not sure if that works though. Never tried. Sander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: question regarding caching

2014-01-03 Thread Sander
this from? Sander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: improve the performance fluctuating of the fsync

2014-01-02 Thread Sander
Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote (ao): Will this help with apt-get performance over btrfs file system? As far as I understand it it's happening because of multiple fsync calls. apt-get install eatmydata This package contains a small LD_PRELOAD library (libeatmydata) and a couple of helper utilities

Re: rootfs crash

2013-09-17 Thread Sander
Zen book UX32V with two 128GB SSDs. If anyone is interested in images produced by btrfs-image, they are available at http://plagi.at/images/ I am fresh out of ideas at the moment, so if anyone has a suggestion I am willing to try. Did you try btrfs chunk-recover ? Sander

Re: Creating recursive snapshots for all filesystems

2013-05-03 Thread Sander
` ... for subvolume in `ls /.root/` do ... /sbin/btrfs subvolume snapshot ${filesystem}/${subvolume}/ \ /.root/.snapshot_${mmddhhmm}_${hostname}_${subvolume}/ || result=2 ... done ... This creates timestamped snapshots for all subvolumes. Sander -- To unsubscribe from

Re: Logical/i-nodes lookups give path resolving failed with ret=-2

2013-04-26 Thread Sander
Adrien Dessemond wrote (ao): I scrubbed a BTRFS volume (mounted as a VFS root) and got several errors. However I am not able to make btrfs print the path of the corrupted files... E.g. kernel log gives : [51078.682876] btrfs: unable to fixup (regular) error at logical 51241746432 on

Re: One random read streaming is fast (~1200MB/s), but two or more are slower (~750MB/s)?

2013-04-17 Thread Sander
Matt Pursley wrote (ao): I have an LSI HBA card (LSI SAS 9207-8i) with 12 7200rpm SAS drives attached. When it's formated with mdraid6+ext4 I get about 1200MB/s for multiple streaming random reads with iozone. With btrfs in 3.9.0-rc4 I can also get about 1200MB/s, but only with one stream at

Re: Activating space_cache after read-only snapshots without space_cache have been taken

2013-04-16 Thread Sander
seems to have improved considerably. I don't know why this happens, but maybe you can observe the umount process's very slow behaviour by using 'cat /proc/{umount-pid}/stack' or 'perf top'. AFAIUI the problem is not there anymore, but this is a good tip for the future. Sander

Re: RAID 0 across SSD and HDD

2013-01-30 Thread Sander
even if it isn't close to what hot data will deliver in the future. Do you know about bcache and EnhanceIO ? http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/ and https://github.com/stec-inc/EnhanceIO Sander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message

Re: btrfs: could not do orphan cleanup -22

2013-01-18 Thread Sander
Reartes Guillermo wrote (ao): [ 71.617841] device label testfs1 devid 1 transid 4143 /dev/sdb1 [ 71.619164] btrfs: disk space caching is enabled [ 71.629969] device label fedora devid 1 transid 2038 /dev/sda2 [ 71.805339] btrfs: Error removing orphan entry, stopping orphan cleanup [

Re: btrfs subvolume snapshot performance problem

2012-12-17 Thread Sander
Sylvain Alain wrote (ao): gentootux ~ # mount /dev/sda4 -o noatime,ssd,discard,compress=lzo,noacl,space_cache,subvolid=0 ^^^ Instead of 3 secondes to run the snapshot, it took almost 4 minutes. Let me repeat the answer cwillu gave to Russell on this, and Russell's response:

Re: Encryption

2012-12-13 Thread Sander
need encryption. Forbids? That is just plain wrong. I have one btrfs filesystem on top of two encrypted devices. Works just fine. Sander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http

Re: Question about btrfs snapshot delay and rm -rf delay

2012-12-06 Thread Sander
SSDs are sensitive to partitioning. Easiest is not to partition at all. Sander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Question about btrfs snapshot delay and rm -rf delay

2012-12-06 Thread Sander
Martin Steigerwald wrote (ao): Am Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: Am Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2012 schrieb Sander: Sylvain Alain wrote (ao): Hi, right now I own this SSD : Intel SSD 520 Series MLC 120 Gigs Also, this is my /etc/fstab /dev/sda3

Re: Example of BTRFS uglyssima performance : Bitcoin

2012-12-04 Thread Sander
, etc...) If your system is stable, you could also consider running bitcoin with eatmydata. Sander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: btrfs defrag problem

2012-11-06 Thread Sander
, with a 'mount -o bind': # mount -o bind / /mnt # ls /mnt/home Sander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Need help mounting laptop corrupted root btrfs. Kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/volumes.c:3707 - FIXED

2012-11-01 Thread Sander
can trigger an issue under 3.6.3(+) with btrfs filesystem scrub or badblocks (in the default non-destructive mode). Can you collect SMART data (with smartctl) from the ssd? Sander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord

Re: Need help mounting laptop corrupted root btrfs. Kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/volumes.c:3707 - FIXED

2012-10-31 Thread Sander
Marc MERLIN wrote (ao): What happened is that my SSD is craping out and failing to write after a certain number of uptime hours. What model ssd is that if I may ask? Sander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord

Re: how to cleanup old superblock

2012-06-26 Thread Sander
for libblkid. wipefs does not erase the whole filesystem or any other data from the device. When used without options -a or -o, it lists all visible filesystems and offsets of their signatures. Sander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message

Re: SSD format/mount parameters questions

2012-05-18 Thread Sander
would not buy anything else than intel. I have about 26 of them for years now (both in servers and workstations, several series), and never had an issue. Two of my colleagues have OCZ, and both had to RMA them. Sander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs

Re: kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/volumes.c:2733

2012-03-30 Thread Sander
Sid (unstable): Yeah, you do. That command is in master now, but it's not really needed. If btrfs-balance shows up, just wait for it to finish, it should get rid of the balance item. If it doesn't show up but the item is there we will have to dig deeper. Ok :-) Sander -- Humilis

Re: kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/volumes.c:2733

2012-03-30 Thread Sander
Ilya Dryomov wrote (ao): On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 07:49:56PM +0200, Sander wrote: Thanks. btrfs-debug-tree confirms that you've got a balance item on media. After that mount it back and see if there is btrfs: continuing balance line in dmesg (and if btrfs-balance kthread shows up

kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/volumes.c:2733

2012-03-29 Thread Sander
Before the balance, I deleted about 2500 snapshots and waited for the btrfs kernel threads to calm down. Then I initiated a btrfs filesystem scrub. Unfortunately during the scrub, the filesystem balance started. Might be related. Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http

Re: kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/volumes.c:2733

2012-03-29 Thread Sander
Hello Josef, Josef Bacik wrote (ao): On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:52:35PM +0200, Sander wrote: I can't seem to balance my btrfs filesystem. It segfaults, and gives a kernel bug: [ 1355.139099] [ cut here ] [ 1355.139099] kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/volumes.c:2733

kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:4263 (due to lost usb connection)

2012-03-26 Thread Sander
! Sander [ 8409.792541] [ cut here ] [ 8409.797576] kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:4263! [ 8409.797576] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP [ 8409.797576] Modules linked in: [ 8409.809112] CPU: 1Not tainted (3.3.0 #8) [ 8409.815734] PC

Re: Invalid argument when mounting a btrfs raid1 filesystem

2012-03-24 Thread Sander
trying to mount the same device, it keeps failing. When I start mounting /dev/sdb2, it works for /dev/sda2... Isn't this very weird? Any ideas? You might need 'btrfs device scan' before you can mount a multi-device filesystem. Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Add btrfs autosnap feature

2012-03-02 Thread Sander
in their directories when the archive was created Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Re: Tuning of btrfs for throughput?

2012-01-30 Thread Sander
of your data, you could try with zlib, lzo or snappy compression. I'd say dd is a lousy benchmarktool btw. Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord

Re: Setting options permanently?

2012-01-29 Thread Sander
. But this will indeed not work nicely with snapshots. And you need more free space than the largest file on the filesystem. find / -xdev -execdir btrfs filesystem defrag -czlib {} + Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: ENOSPC on file deletion with 3.1.6

2012-01-03 Thread Sander
your snapshots take up space. Can you show 'btrfs filesystem df /' ? FWIW, I also had a disk full just a few days ago. Removed all snapshots and some big files, but to no avail. Likely the background cleanup took too much time. A reboot fixed this. Sander -- Humilis IT Services

Re: ENOSPC on file deletion with 3.1.6

2012-01-03 Thread Sander
Arie Peterson wrote (ao): On Tuesday 03 January 2012 15:06:43 Sander wrote: Maybe your snapshots take up space. Can you show 'btrfs filesystem df /' ? Data, RAID1: total=22.72GB, used=14.73GB Data: total=8.00MB, used=0.00 System, RAID1: total=8.00MB, used=12.00KB System: total=4.00MB

Re: COW a file from snapshot

2011-12-22 Thread Sander
the time and it never broke on me. Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: Extreme slowdown

2011-12-16 Thread Sander
threads using a lot of cpu? Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or more btr-filesystems

2011-12-15 Thread Sander
, which you are aware of I assume. Grub2 can't cope with / in a subvolume or something? Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More

Re: What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or more btr-filesystems

2011-12-15 Thread Sander
with / in a subvolume or something? No, btrfs has nothing to do with this. It is just that grub2 cannot be installed to a partition-less drive (at least 1 partition is needed), while syslinux can. Ah, wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the info! Sander -- Humilis IT Services

Re: btrfs encryption problems

2011-11-23 Thread Sander
help here? dd that backup disk to another disk, so you have a backup of your backup, and work with that. You can also post the dmesg output you get when you mount the broken filesystem, and ask the experts if it might be worth to try experimental btrfs.fsck on it. Sander fwiw, I backup

Re: Abysmal Performance

2011-06-21 Thread Sander
Henning Rohlfs wrote (ao): - space_cache was enabled, but it seemed to make the problem worse. It's no longer in the mount options. space_cache is a one time mount option which enabled space_cache. Not supplying it anymore as a mount option has no effect (dmesg | grep btrfs). Sander

Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: make lzo the default compression scheme

2011-05-27 Thread Sander
). Just found out the hard way after a kernel upgrade on a system with no separate /boot partition :-) Found this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23901 Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: Cannot Deinstall a Debian Package

2011-05-06 Thread Sander
that named RAID array devices exist before using them (closes: #606035). - Clear terminfo output on initialisation (closes: #569678). - Fix grub-probe when btrfs is on / without a separate /boot. Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net

Re: Cannot Deinstall a Debian Package

2011-05-06 Thread Sander
cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote (ao): On Thursday 5 May, 2011 23:33:33 Sander wrote: Can you do: echo true /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-installer.postinst and try again? At some point somehow grup-pc apparently got installed, even with the script failure. So I tried my dist-upgrade

Re: Cannot Deinstall a Debian Package

2011-05-06 Thread Sander
cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote (ao): On Friday 6 May, 2011 05:20:28 Sander wrote: Can you post the error? Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Setting up linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64 (2.6.38-3) ... /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'. run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update

Re: Cannot Deinstall a Debian Package

2011-05-06 Thread Sander
... Setting up grub-pc (1.99~rc1-13) ... grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'. Hm. Just do cp /bin/true /usr/sbin/grub-probe Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body

Re: Cannot Deinstall a Debian Package

2011-05-06 Thread Sander
and make a living. Dude, really .. Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: Cannot Deinstall a Debian Package

2011-05-04 Thread Sander
/grub2/grub2_1.99~rc1-13/changelog Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: SSD optimizations

2010-12-12 Thread Sander
it already. Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Cancel filesystem balance.

2010-11-12 Thread Sander
into the background by default and having the cancel option might be a better plan. Thoughts ? My humble opinion: I very much like the way mdadm works, with the progress bar in /proc/mdstat if an array is rebuilding for example. Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net

Re: BTRFS SSD

2010-09-30 Thread Sander
. This really confuses me. Can you show the script you use to test this, provide some info regarding your setup, and show the numbers you see? Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Btrfs: save free space cache to the disk

2010-09-20 Thread Sander
with your filesystem. Will this go into a future version of btrfs? If so, would it make sense to include other changes that would require a format change? Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: Status of BTRFS

2010-07-19 Thread Sander
version of the installer :-) I also believe that Ubuntu 10.10 is slated to have it; I think it's in the current alpha, though based on my reading, there are still some rough edges. Btrfs is in Ubuntu 10.10 alpha and that installs and works oke is my experience. Sander -- Humilis

Re: slow deletion of files

2010-07-13 Thread Sander
on the btrfs mailinglist though. Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Still ENOSPC problems with 2.6.35-rc3

2010-06-17 Thread Sander
intended ;-) Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: SSD Optimizations

2010-03-11 Thread Sander
with a SSD controller. My understanding of the ssd mount option is also that the fs doens't try to do all kinds of smart (and potential expensive) things which make sense for rotating media to reduce seeks and the like. Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net

Re: SSD Optimizations

2010-03-10 Thread Sander
to be copied during a rewrite of the blocks. Wear-leveling is the SSD making sure all blocks are more or less equally written to avoid continuous load on the same blocks. Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: btrfs kernel oops and hot storage removing

2010-01-29 Thread Sander
the entire raid array when removing the USB storage, as the Sheevaplug has only one USB port. That will not work and it is not the fault of btrfs :-) With kind regards, Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008

2010-01-21 Thread Sander
Hello Tomasz, Tomasz Torcz wrote (ao): On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 07:07:10AM +0100, Sander wrote: [26678.568532] [c026c294] (btrfs_get_acl+0x60/0x250) from [c026c494] (btrfs_xattr_get_acl+0x10/0x70) [26678.577802] [c026c494] (btrfs_xattr_get_acl+0x10/0x70) from [c019bb20

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008

2010-01-20 Thread Sander
mkfs.btrfs, part of Btrfs Btrfs v0.19 The system is Debian Sid on an Openrd-client (ARM). The ssd is an Intel X25-E. I didn't find a similar bugreport. With kind regards, Sander [26055.036656] device fsid 904e5c0206a9b9d1-f00b47d7270b119a devid 1 transid 7 /dev/sda2 [26055.045253] btrfs: use

Re: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008

2010-01-20 Thread Sander
Sander wrote (ao): I get the following error if I edit fstab with vi on a fresh btrfs filesystem. vi Segfaults at saving the file. # mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda2 # mount /mnt/ # cd / # find . -xdev | cpio -vdump /mnt # vi /mnt/etc/fstab Segmentation fault This also happens with a 'cp

Re: worse than expected compression ratios with -o compress

2010-01-17 Thread Sander
files are binary. A fair comparison would be to compress the actual database files. With kind regards, Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord

Re: btrfs volume mounts and dies (was Re: Segfault in btrfsck)

2010-01-07 Thread Sander
Hello Steve, Steve Freitas wrote (ao): Alright, I'll trash it and start over with a different drive. With the danger of mentioning the obvious: you could do a few destructive badblocks runs on that disk to see if SMART keeps adding up to the bad blocks list. With kind regards, Sander

Re: btrfs volume mounts and dies (was Re: Segfault in btrfsck)

2010-01-06 Thread Sander
sectors on that disk reported by SMART. If that is indeed the case it might be dificult for the people who might be able to help you, to help you. Please ignore me if I confused your mail with another. With kind regard, Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net

Re: New idea about RAID and SSD

2009-09-01 Thread Sander
. This can be useful if mirror- ing over a slow link. Where the 'slow link' would be the traditional disk. But this is raid1 and doesn't help in your case (but couldn't resist the need to mention it :-) Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net

Offtopic: Which SAS / SATA HBA do you recommend?

2009-07-20 Thread Sander
. Currently I have a 8x 2.5 SAS/SATA chassis and two Intel X25-E 64GB drivers which will have a BTRFS RAID0 filesystem. I already have a Marvell MV88SX6081 eight port SATA controller, but it has no free ports and is pretty old. With kind regards, Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http

Re: Offtopic: Which SAS / SATA HBA do you recommend?

2009-07-20 Thread Sander
S?bastien Wacquiez wrote (ao): Sander wrote: What SAS (or SATA) controller do you use or recommend in combination with a SSD and BTRFS? I'm looking for a non-RAID controller with four or eight ports and of course full Linux support. I don't have any ssd yet, but if you want cheap card

Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-24 Thread Sander
specs mean (almost) nothing: check the OCZ forums and google on real life usage performance problems (stutters mostly) under normal to low load. Especially small writes kill OCZ SSD performance, although their products have improved with the last releases. With kind regards, Sander

Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-23 Thread Sander
Chris Mason wrote (ao): Jens Axboe tried to reproduce the phoronix results on his ocz drive, and generally found that each run was slower than the last regardless of which mount options were used. This isn't entirely surprising, but it did make it very difficult to nail down good or bad

Re: Data Deduplication with the help of an online filesystem check

2009-05-06 Thread Sander
Heinz-Josef Claes wrote (ao): Am Dienstag, 28. April 2009 19:38:24 schrieb Chris Mason: On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 19:34 +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: Hello, I wouldn't rely on crc32: it is not a strong hash, Such deduplication can lead to various problems, including security

Re: btrfs for enterprise raid arrays

2009-04-03 Thread Sander
provisioning causes on-storage defragmentation of disk images, which would kill any OS optimisations like grouping often read files. With kind regards, Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs

Re: Bonnie++ run with RAID-1 on a single SSD (2.6.29-rc4-224-g4b6136c)

2009-02-13 Thread Sander
RAM. Is that a valid test? Also the test run of only 3 minutes 52 seconds seems way too short. With kind regards, Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord