Re: [gentoo-user] Re: planned btrfs conversion: questions

[Marc Joliet]

(FYI: your off-list forward of this email arrived at about the same time as
this one (at about 22:20 CET), strangely enough.)

Am Tue, 6 May 2014 18:13:07 +0000 (UTC)
schrieb James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>:

> Marc Joliet <marcec <at> gmx.de> writes:
>
>
> > I've become increasingly motivated to convert to btrfs.  From what
> > I've seen, it has become increasingly stable; enough so that it is
> > apparently supposed to > become the default FS on OpenSuse in 13.2.
>
> > I am motivated.
> > Greetings and thanks in advance for any help given
>
>
> Good news Marc,
>
> Last December I was on the BTRFS train. The docs team was totally
> in agreement with my (your ?) enthusiasmn for all things BTRFS; including
> but not limited to the development of documentation of how to install, from
> scratch, a complete Gentoo system, centric around BTRFS. The goal was for a
> group to develop documentation on the the gentoo wiki for this adventure.

That would be neat :) . I found it really annoying having to piece lots of the
details together myself. I'm kind of in the middle of a Masters thesis here...

Although I admit this sort of activity satisfies my inner Linux geek ;-)
(there's a reason I like Gentoo, after all). And it will hopefully be satiated
for a while now after setting up automated backups, migrating / to an SSD along
with switching to grub2 (which I already use on my borrowed work/uni laptop) in
the process, *and* migrating an mdraid + LVM setup to btrfs -- all within about
one week :) .

> Unfortunately, as a single parent, entrepreneur, and handyman living in a
> fixer_upper, my free time is rather scant these months of 2014.....
> After some seriously needed projects are closed out, I'll have much
> more time; hopefully in some weeks rather than months. My goals was to
> clearly delineate possible explicit installation syntax for the smoother
> integration (mastery?) of grub2, (u)EFI and BTRFS into a new gentoo
> installation.
>
>
> So if you don't mind, I'd like to  parse out good ideas (from your efforts)
>  and start this doc on the Gentoo wiki, based in part on your conversion
> adventures. I would not even be upset, if some other, younger,
> sharper mind wanted to develop a gentoo-wiki doc, based on your adventures.
> Also, I'm hoping others are keenly inspired to contribute to your efforts
> and  some experimental installation docs on the gentoo wiki. This is the
> gentoo community's  chance to influence future gentoo installation docs, in
> a non threatening manor.
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This one looks pretty non-threatening to me ;-) :

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9usBSoPnUWo/TaMmrclJngI/AAAAAAAAAD4/8Xqx67g6U34/s1600/DSC06646.JPG

> BTRFS is on the fast track in many linux distros,
> as well as cloud/super computers architecture and embedded 64bit arches
> as the main file system of choice.

That sounds perfectly fine to me (the parsing out good ideas from this thread,
I mean, but btrfs being on the fast track is also good :) ).

> I've been espousing (as have many others) for a long time on the
> convergences of embedded linux and full_bloat linix for some time. Here is
> one gentoo_distro where the author experiments with many of the issues
> related to  convergence. There is even some suggestions on using BTRFS on
> gentoo found here. [1]
[...]
> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened_uClibc/Lilblue

That looks interesting, albeit outside my (current) realm of interest. I can
imagine playing with that sort of thing in the future (1+ years), though.

Greetings,
-- 
Marc Joliet
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