[ale] BTRFS - used it?

Michael B. Trausch mbt at zest.trausch.us
Wed Aug 5 16:29:57 EDT 2009


On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> I haven't tried it _recently_, but as of not terribly long ago, Linus is
> using btrfs on at least one system as a root fs.
>
> I've been thinking about adding a logical volume to house a btrfs
> filesystem to test it out, but I'm not ready to put production data on it.
> The on-disk format still is able to change between releases.

I just set up a volume under Ubuntu 9.10 (alpha) and it works a lot better 
than it previously did.  That is, I can actually store files on it.

Don't have time to play with the other features, but the most important 
one seems to work.

 	--- Mike


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