From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: kreijack@inwind.it
Cc: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: btrfs-raid questions I couldn't find an answer to on the wiki
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:49:52 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F262F80.5000103@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201201291223.40161.kreijack@inwind.it>
Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 January, 2012 16:41:32 Duncan wrote:
>> 1) My /boot partition and its backup (which I do want to keep separate
>> from root) are only 128 MB each. The wiki recommends 1 gig sizes
>> minimum, but there's some indication that's dated info due to mixed data/
>> metadata mode in recent kernels.
>>
>> Is a 128 MB btrfs reasonable? What's the mixed-mode minumum recommended
>> and what is overhead going to look like?
>
> IIRC, the minimum size should be 256MB. Anyway, if you want/allow a separate
> partition for /boot I suggest to use a classic filesystem like ext3.
>
The 256MB limitation has been removed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-30 5:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-26 15:41 btrfs-raid questions I couldn't find an answer to on the wiki Duncan
2012-01-28 12:08 ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-01-29 5:40 ` Duncan
2012-01-29 7:55 ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-01-29 11:23 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2012-01-30 5:49 ` Li Zefan [this message]
2012-01-30 14:58 ` Kyle Gates
2012-01-31 5:55 ` Duncan
2012-02-01 0:22 ` Kyle Gates
2012-02-01 6:59 ` Duncan
2012-02-10 19:45 ` Phillip Susi
2012-02-11 5:48 ` Duncan
2012-02-12 0:04 ` Phillip Susi
2012-02-12 22:31 ` Duncan
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