[Btrfs-devel] btrfs on /

[Christian Hesse]

Hello everybody,

now that I have a live CD with btrfs support I decided to give btrfs on root 
partition a try. I have good backups. ;) Here is what I have to tell so far:

* linking btrfsck to fsck.btrfs is a bad idea, it just crashes with signal 11. 
My workaround is the following script:

#!/bin/bash
ARGS=$@
btrfsck ${ARGS##* }

* After a suspend cycle and some hours of work I got curious behaviour, e.g. 
ld crashed while compiling the kernel. btrfsck found a lot of errors which I 
did not save - stupid me. After that I did not suspend and had no further 
corruption problems.

* btrfs seems to bring some latency problems. Sound skips from time to time 
and the mouse pointer jumps on heavy disk io. I will try to find the reason 
for this problem.

Beside this btrfs works perfectly... It's fast and stable. I will report when  
I have any news.
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Regards,
Chris