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MeeGo and Btrfs

Posted May 11, 2010 22:01 UTC (Tue) by arjan (subscriber, #36785)
In reply to: MeeGo and Btrfs by walters
Parent article: MeeGo and Btrfs

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

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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.