Re:Linux 5.10 BTRFS performance regression
by solarkraft on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @07:31AM
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I've also been using btrfs for 5+ years. When the USB stick I keep my home server's file system on didn't boot after a power outage I stuck it into my PC, performed the simplest repair on it (don't remember which) and everything was great again.
The most annoying issue I've run into (and I really hate it) was being low on space and it being really hard to free some since it's very intransparent what's actually using it - but with btdu I mostly got that under control as well.
That said when repairing the boot drive I did experience some confusion due to there being multiple different ways - the documentation could be better on that front. For simple things at least (subvolume management, snapshot creation, checking free space) I've been quite happy with the btrfs command line tool.
The most annoying issue I've run into (and I really hate it) was being low on space and it being really hard to free some since it's very intransparent what's actually using it - but with btdu I mostly got that under control as well.
That said when repairing the boot drive I did experience some confusion due to there being multiple different ways - the documentation could be better on that front. For simple things at least (subvolume management, snapshot creation, checking free space) I've been quite happy with the btrfs command line tool.