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On Tuesday 27 May 2014 11:57:58 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> Am 27.05.2014 09:59, schrieb Neil Bothwick: |
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> >> Alternative: mount the subvol via option "subvolid" etc in fstab |
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> >> .... if you plan to mount different snapshots, for example. |
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> > I went with set-default for the root subvolume, if I need the root |
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> > volume I can mount it with subvolid=0. |
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> Yes, just a question of preference. |
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> I prefer to specify a subvolid ... this won't lead to side-effects if |
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> I ever might set-default to something else. |
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> But it's easier to use the defaul subvolid if you refer to that subvol |
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> via grub2 or dracut etc ... |
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> Something I still learn about ... |
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> >> As far as I understand you are allowed to mount the root volume |
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> >> (or academic: any subvol in a higher level) and use plain "mv" to |
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> >> rename the subvols as if you renamed sub-dirs. |
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> > rust me to overlook the easy way of doing things, I was looking for |
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> > an equivalent to "zfs rename" and never considered mv. |
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> It feels somehow "wrong" to only mv them, right? ;-) |
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> > So far, btrfs looks good on my laptop - time to think about putting |
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> > it on my desktop. |
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> Yeah, good luck with that. I am quite happy with btrfs so far ... no |
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> problems or disadvantages so far. |
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> And the hourly snapshots of / and /home on my desktop are really nice |
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> to have ;-) |
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> Stefan |
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I recall that zfs needed a lot of RAM >= 8M, is it the same with BTRFS? |
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Also how big is each snapshot of / and why are these necessary on an hourly |
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basiszfs ? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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