[Labs-l] Migrating all bots boxes to BTRFS

Thu Feb 14 09:44:50 UTC 2013

I was kind of bold and migrated not just all testing boxes, but also
bots-bnr1 as nobody was using /mnt anyway... let's see

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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