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Originally posted by Prescience500 View PostIs there or will there be an effort to make ensure that BTRFS is as fast as or faster than EXT4? I know BTRFS is all about features rather than performance, but the average home user doesn't need all of those advanced features. For me, faster makes a less painful time redoing my operating system and transfering all of my files every 6 months.
Perhaps if you turned off COW, then it may be feasible for btrfs to match, or nearly match, ext4 in almost all types of IO. I'm not saying it does now, but it would at least seem an attainable goal, in the unlikely chance that the btrfs developers made it a high priority.
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Originally posted by WonderWoofy View PostAs far as I know, no one is actually working on this right now. It doesn't seem as though there is anyone who is interested enough in this at the moment, as there continues to be lots going on in btrfs development.
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Originally posted by jwilliams View PostJust another symptom of the poor project management for btrfs. That is the sort of project that could be completed relatively quickly and provide some significant benefits.
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Originally posted by johnc View PostBut then you'd have to deal with a separate /boot partition and all that crap, right?
I never use seperate /boot partitions myself. I like to leave /boot inside the /root subvolume, so it's dead simple to roll back without worrying about the /boot being out of sync with the file system.
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Originally posted by zman0900 View PostSignificant benefits such as? They already have some compression options, why would lz4 be significantly better?
Of course, as a daily user of btrfs I'd really love a safe, stable fsck tool...
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Originally posted by crymsonpheonix View PostAgreed. Per subvolume compression and encryption, as well as data dedpulication would be much more useful.
Of course, as a daily user of btrfs I'd really love a safe, stable fsck tool...
Additionally no fsck tool is ever -really- 'safe and stable' since the nature of the beast is that if anything would go wrong it'd probably go VERY wrong. You can only ever have varying degrees of 'safe and stable' which everyone will have a different standard for what is good enough.
Personally I have enough faith in Btrfs to run it on a Fedora 20 home server which gets used as my centralized backup for my laptop and phone. Is there an attached eternal drive as a secondary backup? Sure, but thats formatted as NTFS so I'm taking ANOTHER risk by using Ntfs through Linux ANYWAY.All opinions are my own not those of my employer if you know who they are.
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Originally posted by jwilliams View PostLZ4 is faster than LZO, especially at decompression.
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