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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs strategies (wasHard drive noise)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 09:42:11
Message-Id: 567677D8.70603@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs strategies (wasHard drive noise) by "J. Roeleveld"
1 Am 20.12.2015 um 08:40 schrieb J. Roeleveld:
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3 > These new filesystems should really be handed control of the entire disk as
4 > they already include LVM-like functionality.
5 > You can create subvolumes and limit those to different sizes if you so desire.
6 >
7 > When using an additional layer between ZFS/BTRFS and the discs, you will loose
8 > performance with no gain in flexibility.
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10 And you lose the feature of protecting your blocks against bitrot!
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12 btrfs comes with subvolumes and there is no need to use it on top of
13 LVM. If you want separated /, /usr, /var etc cut yourself subvolumes out
14 of your btrfs-filesystem, as mentioned.
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16 forget LVM with btrfs, it's inside already in a way ;-)
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18 I use btrfs on at least 3 systems for years now. No problems.
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20 OK, it gives a bit of a learning curve. One big pool of storage
21 (depending on how many disks you throw into it), all the subvolumes
22 share the same free blocks ... this may feel scary and strange at first.

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