Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-08 Thread Alexander Sack
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:08 PM, James Tunnicliffe wrote: > > I just tested two a nano images using ext4 and they didn't find the > root file system. So, we are at least gated on that bug. I filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-ubuntu/+bug/822593 to make ext4 our default. Seems that our kernel

Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-05 Thread James Tunnicliffe
On 4 August 2011 15:37, David Gilbert wrote: > On 4 August 2011 15:28, James Tunnicliffe > wrote: >> On 4 August 2011 14:56, David Gilbert wrote: >>> On 4 August 2011 14:52, James Tunnicliffe >>> wrote: I have seen poor performance when DDing to a card, which I assume is because dd

Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-04 Thread David Gilbert
On 4 August 2011 15:28, James Tunnicliffe wrote: > On 4 August 2011 14:56, David Gilbert wrote: >> On 4 August 2011 14:52, James Tunnicliffe >> wrote: >>> I have seen poor performance when DDing to a card, which I assume is >>> because dd is not writing large aligned chunks. If we can dd the fi

Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-04 Thread James Tunnicliffe
On 4 August 2011 14:56, David Gilbert wrote: > On 4 August 2011 14:52, James Tunnicliffe > wrote: >> I have seen poor performance when DDing to a card, which I assume is >> because dd is not writing large aligned chunks. If we can dd the first >> meg or so of data onto the card, then write in 4M

Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-04 Thread David Gilbert
On 4 August 2011 14:52, James Tunnicliffe wrote: > I have seen poor performance when DDing to a card, which I assume is > because dd is not writing large aligned chunks. If we can dd the first > meg or so of data onto the card, then write in 4MB chunks that are all > 4MB aligned that should be qui

Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-04 Thread James Tunnicliffe
On 4 August 2011 13:07, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > IMHO it is not stable enough and I am not sure it is worth having such > filesystem as it is mainly used for snapshotting. The last time I played > with it, the FS was quickly corrupted but I don't have to complain > because the kernel configuration

Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-04 Thread David Long
> 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? I too would be considered about filesystem integrity given the nu

Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-04 Thread Tom Gall
Hi James On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:46 AM, James Tunnicliffe 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 do

Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-04 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 12:46:58 +0100 James Tunnicliffe 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 cre

Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-04 Thread Daniel Lezcano
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/2011 01:46 PM, James Tunnicliffe 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

Re: Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-04 Thread David Gilbert
On 4 August 2011 12:46, James Tunnicliffe 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

Changing default root file system to btrfs

2011-08-04 Thread James Tunnicliffe
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 runni