[opensuse] 11.3 and btrfs
I am currently on 11.3 using reiserfs and I would like to test btrfs. Is it safe on 11.3 ? Thanks, Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Duaine Hechler
I am currently on 11.3 using reiserfs and I would like to test btrfs.
Is it safe on 11.3 ?
Thanks, Duaine
btrfs is still "experimental" even with a 3.0 kernel, but admittedly a lot of people use it for day to day use. If you want to test btrfs, I would recommend you upgrade to a newer kernel at a minimum. (I don't know which package has the btrfs format app (mkfs.btrfs), but I would want to upgrade that package too.) You can get a 3.0 kernel for 11.3 out of the kernel-head repo. It is supposed to work at least as far back as 11.3 (possibly 11.2 or 11.1 as well.) The Kernel:HEAD repo is a little unusual. Most of the repos have a version for each openSUSE release. Kernel:HEAD has only one repo called "standard". So add http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/standard/ to your list of repos and install a kernel from there. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Duaine Hechler said the following on 08/02/2011 05:55 PM:
I am currently on 11.3 using reiserfs and I would like to test btrfs.
Is it safe on 11.3 ?
Dunno. I use 11.4 I use resierfs for everything except /boot on openSuse and Mandriva. My Fedora-15 box insisted on ext4 However I have set up btrfs in a LVM partition on both Mandriva and openSuse and had no problems with it. Only openSuse "desktop replacement" laptop I put all of ~/Documents, ~/Downloads and ~/Media (music, movies photos) on sub-volumes. I created the btrfs in a LVM logical volume. :-) I had no problems. I suspect there was some optimization over and above the very effective b-tree of reiserfs. In the long run I see btrfs as a successor to reiserfs and a very viable alternative to ext4, just as reiserfs has been an excellent alternative to ext3. Never the less, I'm going to hold of using it in production until they stop saying its experimental. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 08/02/2011 06:59 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Duaine Hechler said the following on 08/02/2011 05:55 PM:
I am currently on 11.3 using reiserfs and I would like to test btrfs.
Is it safe on 11.3 ?
Dunno. I use 11.4 I use resierfs for everything except /boot on openSuse and Mandriva. My Fedora-15 box insisted on ext4
However I have set up btrfs in a LVM partition on both Mandriva and openSuse and had no problems with it.
Only openSuse "desktop replacement" laptop I put all of ~/Documents, ~/Downloads and ~/Media (music, movies photos) on sub-volumes. I created the btrfs in a LVM logical volume. :-)
I had no problems. I suspect there was some optimization over and above the very effective b-tree of reiserfs.
In the long run I see btrfs as a successor to reiserfs and a very viable alternative to ext4, just as reiserfs has been an excellent alternative to ext3.
Never the less, I'm going to hold of using it in production until they stop saying its experimental. Sounds like a great idea. I have a separate drive that I use for VB, so maybe I'll try it one that drive only.
Thanks, Duaine P.S. Once I discovered reiserfs and found that it was more stable and more reliable, it least for me, than ext3, I've been running it ever since. Too bad it's on its way out. -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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