Greetings all and pardon my intrusion, I'm just a basic home user running a file server for mostly large media files (write once, read many). Some dynamic working files, but a much smaller portion. The OS will not run on BTRFS, nor will it do much in the way of running services other than what's required for a basic file server. My server hardware is mostly salvaged, 2 GB of memory, and an ever growing number of consumer grade large capacity drives. Before I commit and cut over to BTRFS, I wanted to do some customized testing based on my usage profile and the features of BTRFS that I'm interested in. My question has to do with if a Virtualbox VM with virtual disks would be a realistic testing environment to assault BTRFS on. I can not practically test on real disks, so would going the VM route give me a false picture of BTRFS in any way? I'm not sure to what degree the virtual disk writes are buffered by the VM host. Are there any VM configurations that would give me more realistic virtual disk behaviour? Thanks guys for any advice, and for working on what looks to be the future de facto FS for GNU/Linux. d -- 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
