BTRFS TrainingBTRFS Training
Some years ago Barwon South Water gave LUV 3 old 1RU Sun servers for any use related to free software. We gave one of those servers to the Canberra makerlab[...]
Tag: btrfs
BTRFS Status June 2015BTRFS Status June 2015
The version of btrfs-tools in Debian/Jessie is incapable of creating a filesystem that can be mounted by the kernel in Debian/Wheezy. If you want to use a BTRFS filesystem on[...]
BTRFS Status Dec 2014BTRFS Status Dec 2014
My last problem with BTRFS was in August [1]. BTRFS has been running mostly uneventfully for me for the last 4 months, that’s a good improvement but the fact that[...]
More BTRFS FunMore BTRFS Fun
I wrote a BTRFS status report yesterday commenting on the uneventful use of BTRFS recently [1]. Early this morning the server that stores my email (which had 93 days uptime)[...]
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[...]
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[...]