Hi James On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:46 AM, James Tunnicliffe <james.tunnicli...@linaro.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Our current default root file system, ext3, is proving to be a > bottleneck for SD card performance. Not only does it take a long time > to format the partitions, but it also takes a long time to write to. > This slows down creating images on SD cards a lot. I just did a very > simple experiment running linaro-media-create, writing an Ubuntu > Desktop image to an SD card: <snip> > > As I understand it, btrfs is considered OK for file systems running on > systems that don't suffer from power failure, so for writing an image > and testing it this should be fine. > > So, what do people think about switching?
There's no need to switch. btrfs vs ext* is simply a choice to be made at the time you call linaro-media-create. There's nothing stopping you from using btrfs if that's what you want to do with all the caveats etc that have been stated by others. -- Regards, Tom "We want great men who, when fortune frowns will not be discouraged." - Colonel Henry Knox Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs w) tom.gall att linaro.org w) tom_gall att vnet.ibm.com h) tom_gall att mac.com _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
