Re: btrfs on small (embedded) systems

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Intel's Moblin (Moblie linux, www.moblin.org) has used btrfs as
default root filesystem, unless
the users choose other filesystems in the installer.


2009/9/28 Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@xxxxxxxx>:
> FYI - I've been using btrfs with 2.6.31.1 kernel for a few days as a rootfs
> on a small mips system (ASUS WL-500gP - 32 MB RAM, 266 MHz CPU).
>
> btrfs filesystem is placed on a USB-stick connected to the device (internal
> flash only contains the kernel).
>
>
> My main motivation for using btrfs on this small system was compression this
> filesystem offers - flash storage is still prohibitively expensive when
> compared to traditional hard disks (i.e. 32 GB USB-stick costs as much as a
> 1 TB HDD).
>
>
> So far, everything looks fine, although I didn't try to stress it much (or
> use snapshots and/or make the filesystem full).
>
>
> Certainly one thing I'm missing in btrfs is the ability to use swapfiles -
> is it planned one day (or perhaps some serious surgery in MM would be needed
> first)?
>
>
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> Tomasz Chmielewski
> http://wpkg.org
>
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