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#26 2010-06-13 08:24:28

mips1
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Re: Arch Linux Partitions And Filesystems

Ritwik7 wrote:
mips1 wrote:

I have used XFS for a long time but very recently switched to ext4. I find ext4 faster than XFS.

I read that benchmarks show otherwise. Has ext4 improved a lot in recent times to be faster than XFS?

ext4 seems to have improved over time. The last benchmarks I looked at before a fresh install put ext4 on par with xfs for large files but ext4 wins with small files and some disk i/o operations. After going to ext4 disk performance definitely 'felt' faster to me. I'm a longtime xfs user so I was sceptical before the switch but prefer ext4 now. Try it for yourself.

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#27 2010-06-13 10:09:36

demian
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Registered: 2009-05-06
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Re: Arch Linux Partitions And Filesystems

Inxsible wrote:
Ritwik7 wrote:

And yes, I too would like to know how stable btrfs would be on Arch now.

No its not.

I'm using btrfs on my two main machines since a week now and it seems absolutely stable. In fact, btrfs survived a power loss during a storm without any damage.


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#28 2010-06-13 11:14:50

Cdh
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Registered: 2009-02-03
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Re: Arch Linux Partitions And Filesystems

From many positive posts about btrfs in the forums here I decided to use btrfs with compression on my netbook as / (the harddisk is painfully slow). So far I didn't have any problems but I have had it only a short time.

My layout on the laptop is 500 mb for /boot (ext2), the previous root partition for data with jfs and the new / with btrfs.
The problem is that neither grub nor grub2 can boot from btrfs so you need a supported filesystem on your /boot.


There should be no discussion about wheter to use btrfs because of supposed instability: You should ALWAYS make a backup of important files so when btrfs actually does fail it should be not too bad.
(It's only bad when your data is so big that you don't have a hard disk to back it all up sad )


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#29 2010-07-22 19:27:33

JohnieBraaf
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Registered: 2010-07-10
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Re: Arch Linux Partitions And Filesystems

Btrfs has  since last week left the experimental stage for disk format.
See http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/12/66
It remains however under heavy development...

For a demonstration and roadmap (presented on Arch) see
http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1608

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