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Am 19.05.2014 13:01, schrieb Neil Bothwick: |
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> The page you linked to does not actually state that. There are plenty of |
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> hints and sideways references but little concrete information about what |
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> is safe with the current release - hence my question. |
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Oh it does, just take a look at that section: |
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Files with a lot of random writes can become heavily fragmented (10000+ |
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extents) causing trashing on HDDs and excessive multi-second spikes of |
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CPU load on systems with an SSD or large amount a RAM. |
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* On servers and workstations this affects databases and virtual |
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^^^^^^^ |
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machine images. |
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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* The nodatacow mount option may be of use here, with associated gotchas. |
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So they still do not recommend putting virtual machine images on a Btrfs |
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(if you want it in productional use, that is). |
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