Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

[Dale]

Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>> I'm thinking of something tho.  Btrfs.  While I have a new drive with no
>> file system on it, it's a good time to think on switching from LVM.
>> Hmmmmmmm.   I'm currently on gentoo-sources 3.14.
> I think btrfs is usable, but not without its problems.  I don't think
> I'd run it without a daily backup onto something that doesn't run
> btrfs.  I'm running btrfs in raid1 configuration, and I've only
> restored from the backup once, though if I didn't have it I probably
> could have still recovered (ENOSPC issue - the usual solutions weren't
> working).  Earlier this week I was having lockup issues (I tried to
> re-enable snapper and deleting a few snapshots at once caused it to
> stop syncing, and then for several days any kind of heavy write
> activity would cause the issue to repeat, which I suspect was the
> result of delayed cleanup).
>
> Rich
>
>

Well, I really don't have enough time to read up and get to know the
commands and such either.  I guess I better stick with LVM, for now at
least.  When I get another drive, I could always switch then and maybe
it will be more stable then as well.  Maybe. 

Thanks for sharing the info. 

Dale

:-)  :-)