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keenblade
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zmedico, I have solved the problem with the logic I learned from you. Thank you very much.
eyoung100, thanks for your suggestion. I was about to do it, but fortunately I did not have to.
TomWij, thanks for your help, suggestions and the time you spend.
I love this community. Both friendly and knowledgeable people are all around us.
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keenblade
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| zmedico wrote: | | I do all of my big updates in a chroot (a btrfs snapshot of my root fs), so I never have to worry about stuff like that. |
I am very interested in this. Do you have a tutorial or doc about doing updates in chroot with btrfs snapshot? Is btrfs matured enough to be used as main fs?
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zmedico
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| keenblade wrote: | | zmedico wrote: | | I do all of my big updates in a chroot (a btrfs snapshot of my root fs), so I never have to worry about stuff like that. |
I am very interested in this. Do you have a tutorial or doc about doing updates in chroot with btrfs snapshot? |
No, but it's pretty simple to do once you've learned how to use btrfs. What I do is create a subvolume for my root fs, and set that as the default subvolume. The default subvolume is the one that is mounted by default. You can also use rootflags=subvol=foo in your kernel parameters to choose a different subvolume at boot time if necessary. To access all of the subvolumes, you just mount the device somewhere with mount option subvol=/ (btrfs allows you to mount the same device on multiple mount points simultaneously).
| keenblade wrote: | | Is btrfs matured enough to be used as main fs? |
It's very mature and stable for common use cases. I have noticed some mis-configurations that make it unstable, leading to a hung system, but typically not data loss. The problems I've experienced are limited to two specific mis-configurations:
- when the "discard" mount option is enabled for a device that does not support TRIM
- when an extremely large filesystem (1TB or more) is mounted with "space_cache" mount option _not_ enabled
As long as I avoid these 2 misconfigurations, it's very reliable for me. I trust it with all my data (of course I do backups).
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steveL
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| Nice one zmedico. Added to favourite tips page (under Advanced Usage ;) |
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