Hello Pierre! Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
> True. > > I've been using Btrfs for my data for a little while and I'm very happy > with it. > > I wonder how Btrfs fares for a Guix system. In many ways, Guix > supersedes many of the features of Btrfs (snapshots and deduplication in > particular). So I wonder if it's not redundant and possibly incurs a > waste of energy. > > What's your experience, Maxim? I like that Btrfs allows to set different namespaces (think of LVM logical volumes) on the fly as subvolumes. I use snapshots as a mean of backups, (using the btrfs send/receive mechanism to backup the snapshots (differentially) to external storage). I haven't noticed much slow down (if at all?), and the 'lzo' compression keeps the /gnu/store size 30% smaller or so. That sums it for now, I think. HTH! Maxim
