[ale] BTRFS - used it?

[david w. millians]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:12 PM, David W. Millians<millia at panix.com> wrote:
>> I do realize I'll have to load a custom kernel, of course. I'm just more
>> interested in the real-world stability of BTRFS.
> Why?

Custom as opposed to the stock debian kernel. I generally find I get 
insignificant returns tweaking on the kernel; but then, I'm not running 
a big fancy VM-serving monster either, to where it's more 
cost-effective. Me, I just tweak the system to save power.

> BTRFS is in mainline, not that I would want to use it at this point.

I'm not entirely sure I do either; 's why I was asking. :)

I think I might try it anyway, since the system won't go on it, just 
storage, and I'm going to have backup for sure, and I'm going to have 
checksums for everything going on to it. 2 backups of the music; tagging 
is onerous work...

> So if btrfs is your goal, you will want to use the most current r&d
> kernel you can.  I'm a opensuse user and they often are just a week or
> two behind kernel.org at releasing "factory" kernels.

Debian is... well, it's not 2 years, I don't think.