As mentioned previously, I'm experimenting with BtrFS supporting 12.2. It seems quite stable in the limited, single machine, single drive, desktop setting and handling daily use satisfactorily. Over the weekend I converted to KDE x.x.10 and updated all there was to update and am trying out KDE's office suite, Calligra. The disk is partitioned into swap +btrfs. The is no separate /boot. Grub2 is working reliably. I cant comment about running under RAID or across multiple machines; I'm not in a position to test that; this is a desktop and a small 20G disk since all the 'real stuff' comes over via NFS. I'd be happy to experiment with multi-spindle if I could find a brace of small (10G perhaps?) SATA drives in the Closet-of-Anxieties. The one problem I have is with snapshots. Really, the problem is with my understanding, and googling around I can't find the answer to the question I have. The articles I find on BtrFS snapshots all tell me how great this mechanism is and how to use it and set it up. But it seems already set up and working even without me doing anything to initiate it. There are hundreds of sub-directories under /.snapshot and they are filling up. They are even filling up with stuff that comes from the NFS mounted stuff under /home ! I'm concerned because this is eating away at my small disk. Every time I do an zypper update this grows. If I try to delete I get a message telling me that the files are on a write-protected file system! Can anyone help my understanding here? -- "In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org