On Friday, January 18, 2013 10:55:23 Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> I used btrfs on my personal desktop for about a year now and it
> works fine for me, other than a nagging suspicion that there's an
> occasional performance problem at high load.
Yes, this is familiar. I too have used it for over a year. I am only
using it for /home since the file fragmentation problem was unbearable
in /var running yum. The performance problems I experience now are
probably related to this:
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gotchas (first issue)
The last time I tried mounting with autodefrag, it was not much
improved and I worried that my kernel was not new enough to run that
mount option. Now that I just upgraded to F18, I will try again.
The bottom line from my personal experience is if the autodefrag
option works well in /home, I would say I'm ready to see btrfs as the
default. Otherwise, it would probably be a problem on workstations
and certain server environments.
Aside from performance, it has been flawless for me over the last year
or so.
> I can't say anything intelligent about it because I coudn't figure
> out how to measure what I feel, but the system seems sluggish during
> high-impact events like 'yum update' and/or firefox with gazillion
> tabs open.
This duplicates my experience. I don't have anything intelligent to
say about it either. :-)
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