Thanks On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM George N. White III <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 7:08 AM Javier Perez <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> George N. White III wrote in a post something that resonated with me. >> >> A lot of effort has gone towards improving the default configuration, >>> (but >>> now new problems for users who don't do btrfs maintenance and end up with >>> broken filesystems). It is assumed that users going outside the defaults >>> >> >> Is there any link, tutorial, etc that explains what kind of btrfs >> maintenance we are supposed to be doing? >> Long time btrfs user and have never knowingly performed any maintenance >> on my btrfs filesystem except balancing after converting from single HDD to >> raid 1 my system. >> > > >> I wonder what I have been missing (ignorance is bliss :( ) >> Thanks >> > > See: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg90536.html and > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs (Arch Linux often has > excellent documentation). > > Fedora has maintenance tools: > > btrfsmaintenance: Scripts for btrfs maintenance tasks > > btrfsd: Btrfsd is a lightweight daemon that takes care of all Btrfs > filesystems on a Linux system. > > *btrfs-assistant: *GUI management tool to make managing a Btrfs filesystem > easier. > > I use btrfs-assistant which has a weak dependency on btrfs maintenance. > I have been using default settings on 3 systems > (laptop, old iMac, and desktop) with SSD's for several years, but do > backups on spinning media with XFS (from many years with XFS on SGI IRIX64 > I come to trust it). > > -- > George N. White III > > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue > -- ------------------------------ /\_/\ |O O| [email protected] ~~~~ Javier Perez ~~~~ While the night runs ~~~~ toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch.
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