FYI - I''ve been using btrfs with 2.6.31.1 kernel for a few days as a rootfs on a small mips system (ASUS WL-500gP - 32 MB RAM, 266 MHz CPU). btrfs filesystem is placed on a USB-stick connected to the device (internal flash only contains the kernel). My main motivation for using btrfs on this small system was compression this filesystem offers - flash storage is still prohibitively expensive when compared to traditional hard disks (i.e. 32 GB USB-stick costs as much as a 1 TB HDD). So far, everything looks fine, although I didn''t try to stress it much (or use snapshots and/or make the filesystem full). Certainly one thing I''m missing in btrfs is the ability to use swapfiles - is it planned one day (or perhaps some serious surgery in MM would be needed first)? -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Intel''s Moblin (Moblie linux, www.moblin.org) has used btrfs as default root filesystem, unless the users choose other filesystems in the installer. 2009/9/28 Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>:> FYI - I''ve been using btrfs with 2.6.31.1 kernel for a few days as a rootfs > on a small mips system (ASUS WL-500gP - 32 MB RAM, 266 MHz CPU). > > btrfs filesystem is placed on a USB-stick connected to the device (internal > flash only contains the kernel). > > > My main motivation for using btrfs on this small system was compression this > filesystem offers - flash storage is still prohibitively expensive when > compared to traditional hard disks (i.e. 32 GB USB-stick costs as much as a > 1 TB HDD). > > > So far, everything looks fine, although I didn''t try to stress it much (or > use snapshots and/or make the filesystem full). > > > Certainly one thing I''m missing in btrfs is the ability to use swapfiles - > is it planned one day (or perhaps some serious surgery in MM would be needed > first)? > > > -- > Tomasz Chmielewski > http://wpkg.org > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
And because Moblin is supposed to run on netbooks, MID and cellphones (with Intel''s future moorestown chipset), hopefully we will see btrfs running in MID and cellphones in 2010. 2009/10/17 Zhu Yanhai <zhu.yanhai@gmail.com>:> Intel''s Moblin (Moblie linux, www.moblin.org) has used btrfs as > default root filesystem, unless > the users choose other filesystems in the installer. > > > 2009/9/28 Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>: >> FYI - I''ve been using btrfs with 2.6.31.1 kernel for a few days as a rootfs >> on a small mips system (ASUS WL-500gP - 32 MB RAM, 266 MHz CPU). >> >> btrfs filesystem is placed on a USB-stick connected to the device (internal >> flash only contains the kernel). >> >> >> My main motivation for using btrfs on this small system was compression this >> filesystem offers - flash storage is still prohibitively expensive when >> compared to traditional hard disks (i.e. 32 GB USB-stick costs as much as a >> 1 TB HDD). >> >> >> So far, everything looks fine, although I didn''t try to stress it much (or >> use snapshots and/or make the filesystem full). >> >> >> Certainly one thing I''m missing in btrfs is the ability to use swapfiles - >> is it planned one day (or perhaps some serious surgery in MM would be needed >> first)? >> >> >> -- >> Tomasz Chmielewski >> http://wpkg.org >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> >-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html