Hello Stefan, On 2014-02-28 T 15:52 +0100 Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Am 28.02.2014 14:46, schrieb Matthias G. Eckermann:
You really should give btrfs a try (again?) ! ;-)
There is no again, I never tried it. And I don't intend to in the near future. The reason is simple: I don't need any of its features. XFS fits my feature bill very well (modulo grub compatibility, but that's easily solved with a small ext partition).
OK. That's definitely a valid position.:-)
Once the Idea "snapshots would be neat" crosses my mind (and "performance is no longer prime directive"),
Performance of btrfs is fine, in specific cases even brilliant (many, many small files). One has to be careful in situations where all CoW filesystems suffer:
then I'll certainly try btrfs. Right now my usecases just never involved snapshots, but often involved stuff where btrfs by design cannot win (storing VM images, database, ..., [...]
I am meanwhile also storing VMs and Crypto-Partitions on btrfs, yet certainly using the "NoCOW" flag on that specific file ("chattr +C") to avoid potential negative side effects. Hope that helps. So long - MgE -- Matthias G. Eckermann Senior Product Manager SUSE® Linux Enterprise SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org