Re: [OpenAFS] Advice on using BTRFS for vicep partitions on Linux

2023-03-22 Thread Ciprian Craciun
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:30 AM wrote: > OpenAFS implements its own CoW and using CoW below that again has no benefits > and disturbs the fileservers "free-space" assumptions. It knows when it makes > in-place updates and does not expect to run out of space in that situation. At what level

Re: [OpenAFS] Advice on using BTRFS for vicep partitions on Linux

2023-03-22 Thread Ciprian Craciun
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 3:11 PM Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > it's not in-kernel; which means sooner or later one would encounter > > problems. > > Can you please elaborate? I run two ZFS systems @home where one is an > OpenAFS fileserver and client, the other one a client only. They both > started

Re: [OpenAFS] Advice on using BTRFS for vicep partitions on Linux

2023-03-22 Thread Ciprian Craciun
On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 9:32 PM wrote: > The main ingredient on BTRFS is to disable Copy-on-Write for the respective. > This also somewhat mitigates surprising out-of-space issues. What is the reason behind disabling copy-on-write for BTRFS? Does it break OpenAFS in some way, or is it only

[OpenAFS] Advice on using BTRFS for vicep partitions on Linux

2023-03-21 Thread Ciprian Craciun
Hello all! I've searched the mailing archive (and the internet) about this topic, but came a bit empty-handed, as the last proper mention of BTRFS on this mailing list was 10 years ago. So, given so much time has passed, I would like to ask the OpenAFS community if anyone has any experience on