From: Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au>
To: cwillu <cwillu@cwillu.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: btrfs-tools in Debian squeeze-backports?
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:01:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F01C6DC.3040609@pocock.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE5mzviX5kJ70nG3bLPwE7E3ZjmdQvsKNUbs6XXqVhs+MEeSXw@mail.gmail.com>
>
> Note that you really want to be running the latest kernel possible if
> using btrfs; since 2.6.39 there have been several major performance
> fixes, stability fixes, crash-corruption fixes, which users did hit on
> a somewhat regular basis. Btrfs is not yet stable for the typical
> user who just wants things to work, even when things don't. I don't
> know of any major distros that offer support services for btrfs
> filesystems, for instance.
I'm not planning to run my whole system on btrfs just yet - but I was
keen to start running one or two test filesystems on a server that I
currently have running Debian squeeze. Everything else on the server
has to remain as-is if possible.
Thanks for the feedback - I will start looking into the newer kernels
and see if I can use one of them with squeeze, or maybe I will just set
up a VM for btrfs
One thing I've already noticed in 2.6.39 (and both versions of the
tools) is that df results are misleading. E.g. if I run regular df (not
btrfs fi df), I am seeing the same amount of available space for all
filesystems. Is there currently a way to see space used by each
subvolume and snapshot and which kernel and tools versions might be needed?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-02 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-02 14:29 btrfs-tools in Debian squeeze-backports? Daniel Pocock
2012-01-02 14:43 ` Hugo Mills
2012-01-02 14:55 ` cwillu
2012-01-02 15:01 ` Daniel Pocock [this message]
2012-01-02 15:14 ` Hugo Mills
2012-01-02 16:25 ` (renamed thread) btrfs metrics Daniel Pocock
2012-01-02 16:39 ` Hugo Mills
2012-01-04 11:48 ` Daniel Pocock
2012-01-04 18:46 ` Kok, Auke-jan H
2012-01-05 10:09 ` Daniel Pocock
2015-08-30 12:31 ` (renamed thread) btrfs metrics, free space reporting Daniel Pocock
2015-08-31 2:03 ` Qu Wenruo
2012-01-04 18:05 ` btrfs-tools in Debian squeeze-backports? Jan Schmidt
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