* On 2021 29 Sep 16:40 -0500, David Christensen wrote: > I have several SanDisk UltraFit USB 3.0 Flash Drive 16 GB, and have > installed Debian onto them using btrfs and ext4. Both filesystems work. > btrfs requires periodic re-balancing, which is time consuming.
A few years back I built up a server of sorts using BTRFS on a pair of 1 TB 2.5" spinning drives as a software RAID. I think it worked okay but I never got around to really using it as originally conceived. Some time down the road one of the drives started a clicking noise and that was the end of the RAID as I dismantled it. I have a Freedom Box Pioneer that uses BTRFS on its microSD. It seems to be fine. One of BTRFS' features I really like are subvolumes (IIRC) where each subvolume can be be treated as a partition but the FS treats them somewhat like directories and the entire disk is shared between them. Unfortunately, there are still alleged bugs in BTRFS that give me pause. For my usage they would likely be inconsequential. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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