Posted May 13, 2010 17:43 UTC (Thu) by i3839 (guest, #31386)
Parent article: MeeGo and Btrfs
I thought performance was still a problem with Btrfs, especially high CPU usage. Hopefully that gets sorted out quicker now that Btrfs is getting used more.
Posted May 26, 2010 3:05 UTC (Wed) by rodgerd (guest, #58896)
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The main problem I've had with btrfs thus far, having slapped it onto my desktop, is that the management of it is crap. While it has many features, the out-of-the-box userspace tools simply don't allow you to manage them.
Before I let it near anything even remotely important I'd want the standard suite of tools to allow me to remove and rename subvolumes (available via a third-party btrfs tool), and apply block quotas to subvolumes (because if I can't stop a large download using up all my disk space and stopping me from logging in because /tmp isn't segregated from /var, I've got a system which is worthless for multiuser purposes).
MeeGo and Btrfs
Posted Jun 10, 2010 3:05 UTC (Thu) by mfedyk (guest, #55303)
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"block quotas for subvolumes"
This is a planned feature. I plan to use it for this as well as openvz/lxc type virtualization.
"rename subvolumes"
This should be a simple addition to the btrfs-progs tools. In the meantime, you can snapshot the subvolume with the new name and delete the old subvolume location with the current tools.