From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46032 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932279AbaLKJDA (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2014 04:03:00 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XyzeE-0005qI-NA for linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:02:58 +0100 Received: from ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.22.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:02:58 +0100 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:02:58 +0100 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: Re: Fixing Btrfs Filesystem Full Problems typo? Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:02:45 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20141122222606.GO8916@merlins.org> <20141123000503.GQ32735@carfax.org.uk> <20141123010742.GA16599@merlins.org> <54878210.8030807@pobox.com> <548839EE.6080404@pobox.com> <548958FE.7090607@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Robert White posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:42:38 -0800 as excerpted: > TRUTH BE TOLD :: After two very "eventful" conversions not too long ago > I just don't do those any more. The total amount of time I "saved" by > not copying the files was in the negative numbers before I just copied > the files onto an external media and reformatted and restored. While I was running reiserfs and thus wasn't a conversion candidate, I have basically the same opinion of the ext* -> btrfs conversion tool. It's for people who don't have the extra space resources necessary to do a full backup, wipe clean and set it up the way you like, then restore. That said, the conversion and subsequent btrfs troubleshooting has certainly been a "real world" learning experience for you (Patrik, not Robert as quoted above), and while I'd certainly start clean when I was really going to do it, for initially playing around, learning the tools, some troubleshooting, etc, and just to be able to say I've tried the conversion, I could easily see myself spending some time doing what you did, just learning the ropes, etc. When I was done playing and ready to do it for real, I'd wipe the playground and start clean, more confident in my setup and management since I had spent some time playing with it and familiarizing myself with how it worked and what might work best in terms of my own setup. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman