[Labs-l] Migrating all bots boxes to BTRFS

[Petr Bena]

Also, don't be confused by this fs being flagged as beta. Most of its
developers consider it stable enough for production and generally recommend
to use it for any purpose.


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I suggest to switch to BTRFS filesystem on all /dev/vdb devices on all
> boxes. I will start this experiment on bots-N (experimental) boxes for now.
> And if there would be no troubles I would start switching it on all
> production boxes as well.
>
> BTRFS comes with tons of incredible features that none of existing linux
> filesystems can do. And I would really like to perform maintenance on these
> boxes without having to unmount its filesystem everytime when I need to
> change it (BTRFS support basically everything you need to unmount regular
> FS for ONLINE without any need to be unmounted, including defragmentation,
> resizing, mirroring (on level of file, directory or subvolume), making
> snaphots of files or directories and many more)
>
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