Re: btrfs on small (embedded) systems

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And because Moblin is supposed to run on netbooks, MID and cellphones
(with Intel's future moorestown chipset), hopefully we will see btrfs
running in MID and cellphones in 2010.

2009/10/17 Zhu Yanhai <zhu.yanhai@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 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)?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Tomasz Chmielewski
>> http://wpkg.org
>>
>>
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