On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 01:56:59PM -0600, BJ Quinn wrote: > >As soon as there's something that can be tested, you'll find it on this list. > > Great, I'd love to try it. I spent a lot of time with ZFS and the zfs send/recv functionality was very convenient. > > Meanwhile, does anyone know how I can change the UUID of a btrfs partition or are there any other suggestions? You can't change the uuid of an existing btrfs partition. Well, you can, but you have to rewrite all the metadata blocks. The performance problem you're hitting is probably from metadata seeks all over the place. Jeff Liu has a new snapshot diffing tool in development that may make for less IO from rsync. Care to share you rsync script? -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
