From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Li Zefan Subject: Re: btrfs-raid questions I couldn't find an answer to on the wiki Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:49:52 +0800 Message-ID: <4F262F80.5000103@cn.fujitsu.com> References: <201201291223.40161.kreijack@inwind.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: kreijack@inwind.it Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201201291223.40161.kreijack@inwind.it> List-ID: 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.