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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 11:39:09
Message-Id: 53847954.4080506@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes by Mick
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4 Am 27.05.2014 13:25, schrieb Mick:
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6 > I recall that zfs needed a lot of RAM >= 8M, is it the same with
7 > BTRFS?
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9 I assume you mean ">8GB" ?
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11 As far as I know and researched: no, btrfs is less memory hungry and
12 was designed to even work fine on small devices like phones or so.
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14 It depends if you use features like deduplication which is very
15 ressource-intensive ...
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17 > Also how big is each snapshot of / and why are these necessary on
18 > an hourly basiszfs ?
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21 Snapshots don't have any size initially.
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23 With filesystems like btrfs and zfs a snapshot is more of a pointer to
24 a specific status of the whole fs-tree in time and in consequence also
25 happens instantly. The size of the snapshot ... oh, Rich already
26 replied as well :-)
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28 Stefan
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