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robtygart
August 4th, 2012, 04:56 AM
What is going on with the file system "btrfs" is it worth looking into yet will there be any speed improvements? I understand Ubuntu is using it now? Is that just in 12.10 or 12.04, I haven't looked, (not really sure how to.)

(mod please take off "not ext4" from my subject, I changed what I wrote and forgot to change the title Thank you Rob)

madjr
August 4th, 2012, 05:51 AM
check phoronix:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE0NzE

Primefalcon
August 4th, 2012, 07:39 AM
You can use it, I think it's been an option since 11.04 10.10, of course is not default yet since... there are still things being worked out.... like a completely reliable fsck tool.

read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs

robtygart
August 4th, 2012, 05:19 PM
Thank you. I think I will stay away from it until it gets the bugs worked out. Maybe I will set up another hard drive and see what happens.

Porcini M.
August 5th, 2012, 09:27 PM
I've been using it for about a year on my home fileserver, due to what I perceive to be better data integrity (as metadata + regular data checksumming is listed as a feature).

No problems yet, though it gets very light usage.

Mikeb85
August 5th, 2012, 09:43 PM
I've used BTRFS on openSUSE for the last few months (and currently on my laptop), no issues whatsoever. I don't know how the speed compares, openSUSE + BTRFS is much quicker than Ubuntu + Ext4, dunno if it's the file system, DE, or distro itself causing the difference. Only downside is it doesn't seem to be resizeable...