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From: Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@inwind.it>
To: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: btrfs-raid questions I couldn't find an answer to on the wiki
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:23:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201201291223.40161.kreijack@inwind.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2012.01.26.15.41.32@cox.net>

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.

BR
G.Baroncelli

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-29 11:23 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 [this message]
2012-01-30  5:49   ` Li Zefan
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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