On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 13:38:55 Roger Luedecke wrote:
I'm thinking of switching to Btrfs. Benchmarks show significant improvement in random write speed. It seems to me that would be a boon to Akonadi which the new Kmail that I adore is based on. I am not concerned too much with losing data from a filesystem problem that would need fsck.What do you think?
Please feel free to pipe up on any issue I may be unaware of. I am thinking of this for the fresh install of 12.1 on my HPMini 311-1000nr netbook. It has a 149.1G IDE, Intel Atom CPU N270 @1.6Ghz with virtual dual core, and 2.07G of RAM.
I;'m having btrfs and frankly it's a pain on this SSD. Might be different on a hard drive, but be sure not to come even close to running out of space as btrfs does NOT handle that very well (gets extremely slow). In general I'm not happy with my choice, even the latest kernel in 12.1 does little to alleviate the pain.