Re: [arch-general] btrfs & Arch

2011-08-22 Thread Gour-Gadadhara Dasa
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:34:46 -0500 C Anthony Risinger wrote: > if you want to use it you'll probably just want to keep close eye on > development and be conservative about chosen options (eg. bootloaders > cant handle compression/etc), but IME at least it's been pretty solid > all things consider

Re: [arch-general] btrfs & Arch

2011-08-22 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:17 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Simon Schneider > wrote: >> Hi >> >> I was about to use btrfs for my new SSD but I couldn't find any reason why I >> shouldn't stay with my normal LVM and ext4 setup. Is there any particular >> reason wh

Re: [arch-general] btrfs & Arch

2011-08-22 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Simon Schneider wrote: > Hi > > I was about to use btrfs for my new SSD but I couldn't find any reason why I > shouldn't stay with my normal LVM and ext4 setup. Is there any particular > reason why everyone is so crazy about that new fs? for me at least i like how

Re: [arch-general] btrfs & Arch

2011-08-22 Thread Simon Schneider
Am 22.08.2011 18:35 schrieb "C Anthony Risinger" : > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:38:52 +0200 > > Thomas Bächler wrote: > > > >> Using LVM and software RAID is the right thing to do here. Any > >> particular reason why you don't want it?

Re: [arch-general] btrfs & Arch

2011-08-22 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:38:52 +0200 > Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> Using LVM and software RAID is the right thing to do here. Any >> particular reason why you don't want it? > > To have one layer less. > >> btrfs is not ZFS. and btrfs is

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.88-1

2011-08-22 Thread jwbirdsong
On 08/22/2011 01:41 AM, Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Dave Reisner > wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:13:45PM -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.88-1 are in testing for upstream >>> update. Please test and signoff. >>> >>> Eric >>

Re: [arch-general] Canon MP280 turboprint

2011-08-22 Thread ali.mous...@gmail.com
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Re: [arch-general] btrfs & Arch

2011-08-22 Thread Gour-Gadadhara Dasa
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:38:52 +0200 Thomas Bächler wrote: > Using LVM and software RAID is the right thing to do here. Any > particular reason why you don't want it? To have one layer less. > btrfs is not ZFS. and btrfs is still experimental, and I think there > are some people here who had bad

Re: [arch-general] btrfs & Arch

2011-08-22 Thread Aljosha Papsch
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:43:58 +0200 Seblu wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa > wrote: > > Afaics, btrfs will soon get fsck tool for repairing the fs, but I > > wonder what's the plan for btrfs support in Arch, iow, when it can > > become 'official' ? > > BTRFS is alrea

Re: [arch-general] btrfs & Arch

2011-08-22 Thread Jan Steffens
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: > Hello! > > After package manager which can server both official repos & AUR,there is > another thing which I consider before returning back to Arch - filesystem. > > On FreeBSD I now use zfs running on two 1TB disks in mirror (raid-1) m

Re: [arch-general] btrfs & Arch

2011-08-22 Thread Seblu
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: > Afaics, btrfs will soon get fsck tool for repairing the fs, but I wonder > what's > the plan for btrfs support in Arch, iow, when it can become 'official' ? BTRFS is already supported by initscripts: https://projects.archlinux.org/ini

Re: [arch-general] btrfs & Arch

2011-08-22 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 22.08.2011 08:17, schrieb Gour-Gadadhara Dasa: > I'd like to have similar setup on Arch, but without using lvm2+raid-1 (if > possible), Using LVM and software RAID is the right thing to do here. Any particular reason why you don't want it? > so I did research a bit about zfs on Linux and it lo