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MeeGo and BtrfsMeeGo and BtrfsPosted May 11, 2010 21:42 UTC (Tue) by walters (subscriber, #7396)In reply to: MeeGo and Btrfs by arjan Parent article: MeeGo and Btrfs
Do you expect this to impose any constraint on btrfs upstream with respect to maintaining the on-disk format?
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MeeGo and Btrfs Posted May 11, 2010 21:50 UTC (Tue) by dmitrij.ledkov (subscriber, #63320) [Link]
Mobile Operating systems are cloud based devices. You sync amost 100% of the user content: apps, pictures, music, contacts, email.... or even better view those on demand. So I don't think any mobile OS developers care that much about on-disk formats =) prime example apple loves to whipe your iAnything anytime it likes =) cause storing stuff on their devices isn't even supported without getting it into your iTunes library when you go to charge it ;-)
MeeGo and Btrfs Posted May 12, 2010 8:34 UTC (Wed) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link]
Errrr, I don't know about iPhones, but N900 very much support putting things on the device, and I certainly use the storage for apps, music and pictures without syncing.
MeeGo and Btrfs Posted May 16, 2010 0:23 UTC (Sun) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]
Horseshit.
I've carried an n800 around for over a year now, and *precisely the fact that it has two 16GB capable SD slots* is the reason I wouldn't replace it with an n810, much less an n900.
The Cloud is *greatly* overrated; I give it about 5 years to implode under the accumulated weight of the failings inherent in it which the people flacking it never mention. :-)
MeeGo and Btrfs Posted May 11, 2010 22:01 UTC (Tue) by arjan (subscriber, #36785) [Link]
Upstream (Chris Mason) already needs to, and committed, things to be compatible. (At least forwards compatible, eg he can add things but will support the older formats). Linus really asked him to do this already before
MeeGo and Btrfs Posted May 11, 2010 22:37 UTC (Tue) by walovaton (guest, #57287) [Link]
I'm glad to hear that. I like btrfs a lot but I thought the decision to go with it by default was a bit risky. Now I think it's the best option in the long run... good luck with that.
MeeGo and Btrfs Posted May 12, 2010 13:41 UTC (Wed) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link]
I've been running btrfs on laptops as /home since January 2009 without incident so far, though I'm not what you'd call a big disk space user.
MeeGo and Btrfs Posted May 12, 2010 19:28 UTC (Wed) by walovaton (guest, #57287) [Link]
Me too, I was using Btrfs for the whole system except for /boot because grub doesn't know how to handle it. I didn't hit any problem with it but after a good while I decided to go back with ext4 because boot times was slower with Btrfs.
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