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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
what does btrfs do to make your life better or more exciting?

LOL! Probably nothing. However, It's supposed to be faster, and more robust. I have a friend that uses ZFS on BSD and he keeps bragging about how good it is. I just want something that is as good or better.

btrfs does have copy-on-write, though, so data corruption is minimized, volume resizing is built in, and I believe it is generally a faster filesystem. We'll see.

Besides, I also don't need LVM, so if I can get rid of that, then that is one less thing running on my system.

I have so much time/effort invested in my system that I don’t want to have to go back and redo all that stuff.

I have so much time/effort invested in my system that I don’t want to have to go back and redo all that stuff.

I can understand that. I'm currently in the process of trying to organize what my tasks will be upon re-install. Also, I have to consider that I use my laptop for work as well, so there are things there to think about. /home is just the beginning. :)

19 posted on 01/11/2012 6:40:46 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

I have the feeling, very subjective of course, that the maturity that has been sorely needed for linux is really upon us. It’s gotten to the point that the software quality is very high, and daily tasks like upgrades and package installations “Just Work”. It’s a great time to be a linux user.


22 posted on 01/11/2012 7:04:13 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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