On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 09:37 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > > Btrfs supports on the fly compression > > Yes it supports two types, lzo and zlib, zlib compresses more densely, > and the mount option for that is compress=zlib. >
Is it reliable? A month ago I returned all my BTRFS partitions to reiserfs because of unfixable errors. Initially I was quite impressed, but until the tools catch up with real world problems I'll watch from the sidelines. Errors will happen, but fixing them is important too. BillK