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2013 Oct 21
11
swapfile on btrfs, temporary solution for wiki
Hello list, i know what btrfs don''t support swap files.
I read arch wiki and when i reading about systemd addon for auto
create swapfile on btrfs, i invent the way, how create and using swap
file, just see following sh code:
swapfile=$(losetup -f) #free loop device
truncate -s 8G /swap #create 8G sparse swap file
losetup $swapfile /swap #mount file to loop
mkswap $swapfile
swapon
2013 Sep 01
0
Re: Mixed blocks, he can avoid ENOSPACE error, when he can't allocated metadata blocks?
Hello list, sorry for my bad english anyway.
if my message is delirium, just ignore this message.
My question:
When using mixed blocks, metadata and data chunks has be merge, but we
have (when using mixed) speed penalty.
how many penalty will be have if we using mixed?
Kernel 3.11-rc7, Ubuntu 13.10 x64
my simple test:
#Mixed
sudo mkfs.btrfs -f -M /dev/sdb #sdb old seagate hdd 80G
sudo mount
2013 Sep 05
9
btrfs-convert won't convert ext* - No valid Btrfs found on /dev/sdb1
Hello guys, i try to convert ext4 volume, but btrfs-convert show me error:
"No valid Btrfs found on file
unable to open ctree
conversion aborted."
Ubuntu 13.04
Kernel: 3.11
btrfs-progs git version 0.20-git20130822~194aa4a13
way to reproduce error:
$ truncate -s 4G file
$ mkfs.ext4 file #say yes to create fs on non block device.
$ btrfs-convert file
No valid Btrfs found on file
unable