From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dima Subject: Re: What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or more btr-filesystems Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:09:01 +0900 Message-ID: <4EE948AD.9040001@parallels.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed To: Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: On 12/15/2011 03:51 AM, Wilfred van Velzen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Mitch Harder > wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Wilfred van Velzen wrote: >>> >>> What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or >>> more btr-filesystems >>> >> >> When it comes to "best practices" in btrfs filesystem layouts, your >> primary consideration should be to make yourself robust to potential >> filesystem failure. >> >> Of course this should be true of any storage arrangement. >> >> But if you're going to be playing with rc kernels and applying patches >> off the list, you might want to break it up into multiple partitions >> so as to mitigate the problem if one partition picks up a >> inconsistency. >> >> On the other hand, it's also good for people to use the volume and >> subvolume features. There's many different ways for people to make >> use of volumes and subvolumes, and it's good to explore those >> features. > > Well, of course there are different usecases for different situations. > > What I want to find out is, if you should partition differently when > you are using btrfs compared to partitioning for the other > older/regular filesystems for linux, for regular (production) > usecases. Maybe just skip partitioning altogether ;) - format the device to btrfs and use subvolumes instead of your usual partitions (some /boot restrictions apply). You won't be able to use grub2 though, but syslinux will work.