Re: BTRFS in 2012?

Per Øyvind Karlsen <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:43:06 +0100

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Den 18:23 22. januar 2012 skrev Jeffrey Johnson <[email protected]> følgende:
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> On Jan 22, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
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>>
>> Is there interest in hugetlfs in 2012?
>>
>> More directly
>>       How much specific interest is there in "cloud" functionality in 2012?
>>
>> Mandriva has traditionally been a "desktop linux" with a KDE speciality
>> niche and a lot of attention to "polish" detail to increase usability.
>>
>
> Another aside related to file systems and Mandriva:
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> 1) 1K fragments on ext* file systems
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>        In an attempt to maximize the no. of blocks available
>        on user disk storage, Mandriva has traditionally used
>        a non-default and smallest possible fragment size.
This isn't correct, the issue you refer to was due to a bug in the installer
several years ago (which again triggered the kernel bug).
Also using such a small block size has serious performance drawbacks
which would make it insane to use it as a default.

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Regards,
Per Øyvind