Re: BTRFS in 2012?

On Jan 22, 2012, at 12:57 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> long time not answer to the list. Just a small information about hugetlbfs
> 
> Le 22/01/2012 17:41, Jeffrey Johnson a écrit :
>> 
>> 
>> (changing topic while I am here, related to file systems but not BTRFS)
>> 
>> There is another file system called hugetlbfs that has usage cases
>> in the "cloud" because the page size increases dramatically (to >4Mb
>> per page) so that multiple VM's can share large amounts of data easily.
>> 
>> Is there interest in hugetlfs in 2012?
> 
> hugetlbfs is already available in 2011. Just need to configure it and it
> works like a charm.

I expected hugetlbs in 2011 (but likely obscure and underused by "default").

> For 2012, the addon feature would be : offer gui to configure hugetlbfs
> directly from drakconf.
> 

Definitely. Thank you.

73 de Jeff