On Saturday 15 November 2014 00:01:47 John Andersen wrote:
On November 14, 2014 11:46:06 PM PST, Stanislav Baiduzhyi
wrote: Hi All,
I was little surprised that openSUSE went with Btrfs for / but with XFS for /home. So I have to ask this question: when and why I should *not* use Btrfs for /home?
I've heard/read somewhere that Btrfs handles virtual machines badly, because of huge random access disk file and COW nature of Btrfs, can anyone confirm that?
What other use-cases Btrfs handles badly?
Well, It appears that it does not handle encryption, and people often like to encrypt their home directory.
But it does, the same way XFS and Ext4 are doing it: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#Does_btrfs_support_encryption.3F That was a decision in openSUSE team to disable "encrypt" checkbox if Btrfs is chosen, I don't know why. -- Regards, Stas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org