Re: [arch-general] BTRFS, a good choice for /?

2010-09-24 Thread Steven Susbauer
On 09/24/2010 01:16 AM, Christoph Rissner wrote: I also suspect btrfs was waking up the disk pretty often (at least thats what lm-profiler told me). Its a pity, but someday I will try it again. Christoph I did notice this problem. Even without anything running I could not get my drive to sp

Re: [arch-general] RAID Fails Due To Metadata

2010-09-24 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I noticed today I tried to create a new system using 'Software / Fake > RAID' on Arch with the 'mdadm' utility. I have not done this for a > year or so but realized that when I tried now on my new system, it > failed and then I tried it agai

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS, a good choice for /?

2010-09-24 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 24 September 2010 18:52:30 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > It seems btrfs is really worth a try after so many positive feedbacks. > Any ideas how can I format / with latest btrfs? I've the archiso on my > pen drive which was released months ago, I guess it doesn't have the > latest btrfs-pro

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS, a good choice for /?

2010-09-24 Thread jesse jaara
the archiso 2010.08 has btrfs support marked as experimental but it should work and create a working btrfs partition, but if you want newer tolls you can updte it or instlaa the git version

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS, a good choice for /?

2010-09-24 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
It seems btrfs is really worth a try after so many positive feedbacks. Any ideas how can I format / with latest btrfs? I've the archiso on my pen drive which was released months ago, I guess it doesn't have the latest btrfs-progs? What's the method then? Create a PenArch? -- Regards, Nilesh Govin