From: Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>
To: lists@xunil.at, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: general thoughts and questions + general and RAID5/6 stability?
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 08:08:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <542162A8.2010700@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54208BBC.1000700@xunil.at>
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On 2014-09-22 16:51, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 20.09.2014 um 11:32 schrieb Duncan:
>
>> What I do as part of my regular backup regime, is every few kernel cycles
>> I wipe the (first level) backup and do a fresh mkfs.btrfs, activating new
>> optional features as I believe appropriate. Then I boot to the new
>> backup and run a bit to test it, then wipe the normal working copy and do
>> a fresh mkfs.btrfs on it, again with the new optional features enabled
>> that I want.
>
> Is re-creating btrfs-filesystems *recommended* in any way?
>
> Does that actually make a difference in the fs-structure?
>
I would recommend it, there are some newer features that you can only
set at mkfs time. Quite often, when a new feature is implemented, it is
some time before things are such that it can be enabled online, and even
then that doesn't convert anything until it is rewritten.
> So far I assumed it was enough to keep the kernel up2date, use current
> (stable) btrfs-progs and run some scrub every week or so (not to mention
> backups .. if it ain't backed up, it was/isn't important).
>
> Stefan
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-23 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-19 20:50 general thoughts and questions + general and RAID5/6 stability? William Hanson
2014-09-20 9:32 ` Duncan
2014-09-22 20:51 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-09-23 12:08 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn [this message]
2014-09-23 13:06 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-09-23 13:38 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-09-23 13:51 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-09-23 14:24 ` Tobias Holst
2014-09-24 1:08 ` Qu Wenruo
[not found] ` <CAGwxe4i2gQXSPiBGXbUKWid3o1tmD_+YtbOj=GQ11vzGx8CuTw@mail.gmail.com>
2014-09-23 14:47 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-09-23 15:25 ` Kyle Gates
2014-09-25 7:15 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
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2014-08-31 4:02 Christoph Anton Mitterer
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