Any experiences with BTRFS on Fedora 17/Fedora 18?
I was looking at the documentation for BTRFS and wondering if there is any reason to migrate to it as of yet. I think it is still experimental in the kernel, and most of my data is JPGs of various sizes.
My hard drive topology include: 300 Gig formatted as EXT4 1 Terabyte formatted as EXT4, mostly for backup of the 300 Gig. It looks like BTRFS is really good for multi-volume RAID configurations, and really big file systems. I might be wrong in my assumptions. - Raj |
I'd use XFS for this purpose for now.
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From reading wikipedia.org, it looks more baked in then BTRFS. Thanks for the feedback.
- Raj |
I wanted to fsck the drive to check if I corrupted it, and ext4 fsck exists on my machine, but I don't have a fsck.btrfs. Does it exist?
- Raj Code:
# fsck /home/julie/btrfs |
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Thank you for your response.
Something is not right on my machine, though. Code:
# mount | grep btrfs - Raj |
You might want to have a look at this article. This is an interesting article by an Australian ISP who have made an experiment with BTRFS, just to see how things are coming along.
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The 'snapshotting' part seems potentially useful to many users, whether they be desktop users or 'big data' users, even if the non-geeky probably won't see the advantage until it is made directly apparent to them. Potentially, BTRFS could have advantages in different areas, from big to small, but the advantages that different users want from it are probably different, so the testing issue, and demonstrating the practical reliability, will probably take a bit of time. |
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