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 13:56:39 +0800 Message-ID: <977a2be20910162256k786d7975i52de239680e589d3@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AC0B077.6080809@wpkg.org> <977a2be20910162254m6beaa89ey20d29b5efc9b5f45@mail.gmail.com> 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: <977a2be20910162254m6beaa89ey20d29b5efc9b5f45@mail.gmail.com> List-ID: And because Moblin is supposed to run on netbooks, MID and cellphones (with Intel's future moorestown chipset), hopefully we will see btrfs running in MID and cellphones in 2010. 2009/10/17 Zhu Yanhai : > 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 (i= nternal >> flash only contains the kernel). >> >> >> My main motivation for using btrfs on this small system was compress= ion this >> filesystem offers - flash storage is still prohibitively expensive w= hen >> compared to traditional hard disks (i.e. 32 GB USB-stick costs as mu= ch as a >> 1 TB HDD). >> >> >> So far, everything looks fine, although I didn't try to stress it mu= ch (or >> use snapshots and/or make the filesystem full). >> >> >> Certainly one thing I'm missing in btrfs is the ability to use swapf= iles - >> is it planned one day (or perhaps some serious surgery in MM would b= e needed >> first)? >> >> >> -- >> Tomasz Chmielewski >> http://wpkg.org >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrf= s" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at =C2=A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.h= tml >> > -- 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