BTRFS Status July 2014BTRFS Status July 2014
My last BTRFS status report was in April [1], it wasn’t the most positive report with data corruption and system hangs. Hacker News has a brief discussion of BTRFS which[...]
Category: storage
Why I Use BTRFSWhy I Use BTRFS
I’ve just had to do yet another backup/format/restore operation on my workstation due to a BTRFS corruption problem, but as usual I didn’t lose any data. The BTRFS data integrity[...]
BTRFS vs LVMBTRFS vs LVM
For some years LVM (the Linux Logical Volume Manager) has been used in most Linux systems. LVM allows one or more storage devices (either disks, partitions, or RAID sets) to[...]
Swap Breaking SSDSwap Breaking SSD
I’ve seen many comments about swap space and SSD claiming that swap will inherently destroy SSD through using too many writes. The latest was in the comments of my post[...]
BTRFS Status April 2014BTRFS Status April 2014
Since my blog post about BTRFS in March [1] not much has changed for me. Until yesterday I was using 3.13 kernels on all my systems and dealing with the[...]
Swap Space and SSDSwap Space and SSD
In 2007 I wrote a blog post about swap space [1]. The main point of that article was to debunk the claim that Linux needs a swap space twice as[...]
Finding Corrupt Files that cause a Kernel ErrorFinding Corrupt Files that cause a Kernel Error
There is a BTRFS bug in kernel 3.13 which is triggered by Kmail and causes Kmail index files to become seriously corrupt. Another bug in BTRFS causes a kernel GPF[...]
BTRFS Status March 2014BTRFS Status March 2014
I’m currently using BTRFS on most systems that I can access easily. It’s not nearly reliable enough that I want to install it on a server in another country or[...]
Cheap Bulk StorageCheap Bulk Storage
The Problem Some of my clients need systems that store reasonable amounts of data. This is enough data that we can expect some data corruption on disk such that traditional[...]
BTRFS and ZFS as Layering ViolationsBTRFS and ZFS as Layering Violations
LWN has an interesting article comparing recent developments in the Linux world to the “Unix Wars” that essentially killed every proprietary Unix system [1]. The article is really interesting and[...]