On 12/15/2011 03:51 AM, Wilfred van Velzen wrote:
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Mitch Harder
<mitch.harder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Wilfred van Velzen<wvvelzen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or
more btr-filesystems
When it comes to "best practices" in btrfs filesystem layouts, your
primary consideration should be to make yourself robust to potential
filesystem failure.
Of course this should be true of any storage arrangement.
But if you're going to be playing with rc kernels and applying patches
off the list, you might want to break it up into multiple partitions
so as to mitigate the problem if one partition picks up a
inconsistency.
On the other hand, it's also good for people to use the volume and
subvolume features. There's many different ways for people to make
use of volumes and subvolumes, and it's good to explore those
features.
Well, of course there are different usecases for different situations.
What I want to find out is, if you should partition differently when
you are using btrfs compared to partitioning for the other
older/regular filesystems for linux, for regular (production)
usecases.
Maybe just skip partitioning altogether ;) - format the device to btrfs
and use subvolumes instead of your usual partitions (some /boot
restrictions apply). You won't be able to use grub2 though, but syslinux
will work.
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