similar to: RAID 0 across SSD and HDD

Hi! Today I converted my /home from Ext4 to BTRFS by reformatting and copying all over again. I created the filesystem with -l 16384 -n 16384 -d single -m single on an logical volume Intel SSD 320 and mount with compress=lzo,spacecache. Current state: merkaba:~> btrfs filesystem show failed to read /dev/sr0 Label: ''home'' uuid: […] Total devices 1 FS bytes used

Hello If I want to manage a complete disk with btrfs, what''s the "Best Practice"? Would it be best to create the btrfs filesystem on "/dev/sdb", or would it be better to create just one partition from start to end and then do "mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb1"? Would the same recomendation hold true, if we''re talking about huge disks, like 4TB or so?

Here is a short proposal for the hybrid storage cache idea with introduction/motivation and a bird''s eye view of an approach to implement a hybrid storage cache for btrfs. Please note that there is currently no available patches. We would like to get as much input before as possible before we start designing and implementing a solution. 1. Introduction The emerge of Solid State

Hi list, I don''t trust theoretical benchmarks that much and prefer "real-life benchs" on the occasion, so here''s mine: Given 4 laptops, the most powerful of which was running BTRFS and the others ext3 or ext4, all machines running Ubuntu 11.04 Natty 32-bit with a stock Ubuntu 2.6.38-11 kernel, all machines were given the following FS-intensive task : - Upgrade

Hello, The question below is based on https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-users/2012- August/004509.html Thanks in advance for any help with the following question, including pointing me to some other info resource if needed. I have a user with an Xubuntu 12.04.1 laptop, 32-bit. He needs to use a USB hard disk drive which has 2 partitions: the 1st partition is NTFS and the 2nd

Hi, After reading through the btrfs documentation I''m curious to know if it''s possible to ever securely erase a file from a btrfs filesystem (or ZFS for that matter). On non-COW filesystems atop regular HDDs one can simply overwrite the file with zeros or random data using dd or some other tool and rest assured that the blocks which contained the sensitive information have

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Is it ( yet? ) possible to manipulate the allocation policy on a subvolume level instead of the fs level? For example, to make / use raid1, and /home use raid0? Or to have / allocated from an ssd and /home allocated from the giant 2tb hd. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

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

For using SSDs: Are there any format/mount parameters that should be set for using btrfs on SSDs (other than the "ssd" mount option)? General questions: How long is the ''delay'' for the delayed alloc? Are file allocations aligned to 4kiB boundaries, or larger? What byte value is used to pad unused space? (Aside: For some, the erased state reads all 0x00, and for

Hey all, Just did a btrfs balance on a single device. Before the balance operation here is the df result: inglor@tiamat ~$ btrfs fi df /home Data: total=19.19GB, used=9.34GB System, DUP: total=32.00MB, used=4.00KB Metadata, DUP: total=896.00MB, used=227.98MB Then I issues a balance operation relocating the chunks across a single device: inglor@tiamat ~$ sudo btrfs fi balance /home [sudo]

hi All, I''m new on the list. System: Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 13.04 Release: 13.04 Codename: raring Linux ctu 3.8.0-19-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 1 16:35:23 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux The symptom is the same with Saucy 3.9 kernel. ii btrfs-tools 0.20~git20130524~650e656-0daily13~raring1 amd64 Checksumming Copy on

I just setup a new SSD with my laptop root filesystem, and at the time I though, "eh, I''ll just use zlib compression during the first copy, and then switch to lzo afterwards to maintain write speed when I''m using the laptop after the copy and reboot". Now, I rebooted with the new ssd and zlib compressed rootfs, and it seemed to boot slower than it did before with the

Hi folks, For people who might be interested, here is how btrfs performs with two partitions on a single SSD drive in a RAID-1 mirror. This is on a Dell E4200 with Core 2 Duo U9300 (1.2GHz), 2GB RAM and a Samsung SSD (128GB Thin uSATA SSD). Version 1.03c ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block--

Hi Seto, please could you update also the man page too ? Why it was not provided a way to clear a *single* flag ? To me it seems a bit too long to clear all the flag (btrfs mount-option clear) and then set the right one. As user interface I suggest something like chmod: btrfs mount-option set +ssd,skip_balance -nodatacow /dev/sdX or btrfs mount-option set =ssd,skip_balance,nodatacow

I''ve got two recent examples of SSDs. Their pristine state from the manufacturer shows: Device Model: OCZ-VERTEX3 # hexdump -C /dev/sdd 00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 1bf2976000 Device Model: OCZ VERTEX PLUS (OCZ VERTEX 2E) # hexdump -C /dev/sdd 00000000 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................| *

Hello, I have noticed I have the following in my dmesg: [319769.043163] nbd: registered device at major 43 [319769.104176] nbd11: unknown partition table [319769.130273] device fsid c2598ff2-1e3e-4edf-ab19-1f7ab41b0160 devid 1 transid 125743 /dev/nbd11 [319769.130522] btrfs: force lzo compression [319769.130528] btrfs: disk space caching is enabled [319802.926547] Btrfs detected SSD devices,

What happened to the hot data tracking feature in btrfs? There are a lot of old patches from aug 2010, but it looks like the feature has been completly removed from the current version of btrfs. Is this feature still on the roadmap?

I''ve just pushed out a new integration branch to my git repo. This is purely bugfix patches -- there are no new features in this issue of the integration branch. I''ve got a stack of about a dozen more patches with new features in them still to go. I''ll be working on those tomorrow. As always, there''s minimal testing involved here, but it does at least compile on

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

Hi, I wanted to create a new btrfs fs for my backups. When trying to mkfs.btrfs for that device, I''m getting "error checking /dev/loop2 mount status" With strace I see where the problem is: lstat("/dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSA2M160G2GC_CVPO939201JX160AGN-par", 0x7fffa30b3cf0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) The problem is there is something missing