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So, a week has passed since my conversion to btrfs. |
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So far there seem to have been no problems, my system has been running as if |
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nothing has changed :) . Which, as a friend pointed out, is how it should be. |
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I don't think there is anything particularly interesting to mention in addition |
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to what I already wrote. I can just say that I think the effort was worth it. |
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The one thing that I can tell from reading the past two weeks of the btrfs ML |
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is that the 3.15 Linux kernel series will contain lots of bug fixes (for |
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example in balancing, error handling, and send/receive), and that I will want |
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to use that sooner rather than later. Of course, the severity of the problems |
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varies, and a lot are triggered under odd, or at least uncommon, circumstances. |
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Still, its worth paying attention to. |
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Also, a lot of problem reports I saw came from people using other volume |
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management below btrfs, interestingly enough. |
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As for the future, I think I will wait a while, and get some experience with |
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btrfs first. I suspect that by the time btrfs supports swap files, it will be |
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stable enough that I would consider converting my SSD to also use btrfs |
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anyway :) . Possibly before that, once I am fully convinced of btrfs' |
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stability, I will also convert my backup drive and switch to using snapshots |
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and send/receive to perform backups. Perhaps somebody will have written a |
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backup solution on top of snapshots by then. |
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Have a nice weekend, |
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Marc Joliet |
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"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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