From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zhu Yanhai Subject: Re: btrfs on small (embedded) systems Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:54:13 +0800 Message-ID: <977a2be20910162254m6beaa89ey20d29b5efc9b5f45@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AC0B077.6080809@wpkg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Tomasz Chmielewski Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4AC0B077.6080809@wpkg.org> List-ID: Intel's Moblin (Moblie linux, www.moblin.org) has used btrfs as default root filesystem, unless the users choose other filesystems in the installer. 2009/9/28 Tomasz Chmielewski : > FYI - I've been using btrfs with 2.6.31.1 kernel for a few days as a = rootfs > on a small mips system (ASUS WL-500gP - 32 MB RAM, 266 MHz CPU). > > btrfs filesystem is placed on a USB-stick connected to the device (in= ternal > flash only contains the kernel). > > > My main motivation for using btrfs on this small system was compressi= on this > filesystem offers - flash storage is still prohibitively expensive wh= en > compared to traditional hard disks (i.e. 32 GB USB-stick costs as muc= h as a > 1 TB HDD). > > > So far, everything looks fine, although I didn't try to stress it muc= h (or > use snapshots and/or make the filesystem full). > > > Certainly one thing I'm missing in btrfs is the ability to use swapfi= les - > is it planned one day (or perhaps some serious surgery in MM would be= needed > first)? > > > -- > Tomasz Chmielewski > http://wpkg.org > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs= " in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at =C2=A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.ht= ml > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html