[opensuse] 12.1 - BtrFS/LZO or Ext4 on Notebook ???
Hi ! Anyone can shed any light on this dilemma? I have an idea (may be wrong) to use BtrFS with LZO compression for both /root and /home to reduce disk activity and may be gain some speed (on notebook with dual core Intel i3 and 4 GB of RAM, OpenSuSE 12.1). Does this logic make some sense? Or may be BtrFS is steel too "green" for this purpose? Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 06/01/12 07:44, andreil1 wrote:
Hi !
Anyone can shed any light on this dilemma?
I have an idea (may be wrong) to use BtrFS with LZO compression for both /root and /home to reduce disk activity and may be gain some speed (on notebook with dual core Intel i3 and 4 GB of RAM, OpenSuSE 12.1).
Does this logic make some sense? Or may be BtrFS is steel too "green" for this purpose?
Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s).
I am using btrfs/lzo in my laptop and I have found no issues. Keep in mind that btrfs.fsck is still under development and may not be available yet. (so no repair possible) Personally I couldn't care less about this gotcha, however your mileage may vary. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Friday 06 January 2012, andreil1 wrote:
Hi !
Anyone can shed any light on this dilemma?
I have an idea (may be wrong) to use BtrFS with LZO compression for both /root and /home to reduce disk activity and may be gain some speed (on notebook with dual core Intel i3 and 4 GB of RAM, OpenSuSE 12.1).
Does this logic make some sense? Or may be BtrFS is steel too "green" for this purpose?
I'd tried such btrfs/compression stuff half year ago with kernel 2.6.37 and had serious issues which caused me to skip my btrfs plans until it's official stable. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/10426 However just try it and please post about it even you'll get positive experiences only :) cu, Rudi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 07:16 +0100, Ruediger Meier wrote:
On Friday 06 January 2012, andreil1 wrote:
Hi !
Anyone can shed any light on this dilemma?
I have an idea (may be wrong) to use BtrFS with LZO compression for both /root and /home to reduce disk activity and may be gain some speed (on notebook with dual core Intel i3 and 4 GB of RAM, OpenSuSE 12.1).
Does this logic make some sense? Or may be BtrFS is steel too "green" for this purpose?
I'd tried such btrfs/compression stuff half year ago with kernel 2.6.37 and had serious issues which caused me to skip my btrfs plans until it's official stable. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/10426
However just try it and please post about it even you'll get positive experiences only :)
cu, Rudi I read up a lot on the btrfs and the updates in the newer kernels. Give it a shot, btrfs seems very nearly ready for prime time. With an i3 you should see virtually no overhead from the LZO compression. I would also recommend changing your fstab to turn off the at time option, that is to say noatime flag. You can figure that one out in YaST. Normally, every time a file is accessed it gets a access time stamp which adds a good deal to disk io.
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