Re: Btrfs best practices

2022-01-29 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hello! I think I should inform this list about my choices so far: Em [2021-12-16 qui 14:13:05-0300], Jorge P. de Morais Neto escreveu: > Should I use a backported kernel as Btrfs [wiki][] recommends? I worry > that bullseye-backports comes from Debian testing with poor security. I'm just using

Re: Btrfs best practices: defrag?

2022-01-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 08:38:41PM +, piorunz wrote: > My current fstab mounting: > > noatime,space_cache=v2,compress-force=zstd:3 0 2 > > Will autodefrag break COW files? Like I copy paste a file and I save > space, but defrag with destroy this space saving? Yes, I believe so. That

Re: Btrfs best practices: defrag?

2022-01-26 Thread piorunz
I'd like to add question to this topic. Is it safe & recommended to run autodefrag mount option in fstab? I am considering two machines here, normal desktop which has Btrfs as /home, and server with VM and other databases also btrfs /home. Both Btrfs RAID10 types. Both are heavily fragmented. I n

Re: Btrfs best practices

2021-12-16 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hi. Em [2021-12-16 qui 14:55:23-0300], Eduardo M KALINOWSKI escreveu: > On 16/12/2021 14:13, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: >> I'll put system and /home on the SSD but all XDG user dirs² on the >> HDD [snip] > > I don't have that manpage installed, but if you're refering to > ~/.config, ~/.local,

Re: Btrfs best practices

2021-12-16 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hi. I must add the information that I use zswap: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet zswap.enabled=1 zswap.zpool=z3fold zswap.compressor=lzo-rle" Em [2021-12-16 qui 14:13:05-0300], Jorge P. de Morais Neto escreveu: > Hi! I own a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1 TB SATA HDD, a new 250 GB > NVMe

Re: Btrfs best practices

2021-12-16 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 16/12/2021 14:13, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: I'll put system and /home on the SSD but all XDG user dirs² on the HDD [snip] I don't have that manpage installed, but if you're refering to ~/.config, ~/.local, etc, these are exactly the kinds of things that should be on the SSD - it'll he

Btrfs best practices

2021-12-16 Thread Jorge P. de Morais Neto
Hi! I own a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1 TB SATA HDD, a new 250 GB NVMe SSD¹ and 16 GiB RAM. I seek reliability, durability, performance and power efficiency. I do weekly duplicity backups to external 1.5 TB USB3 HDD. I'll start also daily rsyncing some of the SSD data to the SATA HDD. The