The cool features and new devel for btrfs are all in the high availability area. For normal desktop needs it is all there today. I have a single SSD which I rsync to an internal HDD daily. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mel Walters" <melwalt...@telus.net> To: clug-talk@clug.ca Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 8:31:08 PM Subject: Re: [clug-talk] using modern kernels ? 3.X for btrfs or other reasons
On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 16:49 -0600, Greg King wrote: > I am running 64 bit kernel: > Linux HAL 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:30:00 UTC 2014 x86_64 > x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > which comes in the most recent Mint long term support which I like because I > don't want to upgrade every 6 months. > > I also run btrfs on a SSD on this system and have not had any problems. I > tend to "set and forget" the OS so I am not sure of what limitations you are > referring to with btfrs. It is certainly fine for a desktop, and running some > VMs of various servers. Sounds like you want to roll your own distro tho > which I cannot comment on. I did leave the boot partition as ext2. No I'm not trying to roll my own distro, am mostly using Debian_Stable_Linux-3.2.0-4-amd64, not really up to date enough for the cool features of btrfs. Like you can mkfs.btrfs but not as freely modify on the fly like intended if the kernel is too out of date. Out of the box, SolydXK allows you to install Linux 3.11-2-amd64 and Linux 3.14-1-amd64 3.11 sort of works but think I may need 3.14. See your using 3.13. Others say run the latest like 3.4 or 3.8. I'm not there yet. Are you running btrfs on one drive, or a RAID1 mirror? Mel > wgking@HAL ~ $ mount > /dev/sda2 on / type btrfs (rw,subvol=@) > ... > /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) > /dev/sda2 on /home type btrfs (rw,subvol=@home) > > Greg > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mel Walters" <melwalt...@telus.net> > To: "CLUG General" <clug-talk@clug.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, 20 August, 2014 4:20:45 PM > Subject: [clug-talk] using modern kernels ? 3.X for btrfs or other reasons > > Of those of you running some modern kernel's: > 1/ Just wondering what version you picked and how you chose to go about > it? > and > 2/ If you are using a method like pinning or similar? > or > 3/ The Liquorix kernel? > 4/ which one you like? 3.4, 3.8, etc. > > One of the reasons I am asking is because I was playing around with > btrfs and finding kernel 3.14-1-amd64 may be too limiting for latest > btrfs features > > Mel > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
