Anybody have experience with Btrfs compression? I have a 16G Chromebook and I want to install Arch Linux on it. I was hoping filesystem compression would help stretch drive space a little further.
Btrfs Compression
Levi Gray
Andrew Williams
>>btrfs on a 16gb drive
Gabriel Hughes
Everything's literally written in the ArchWiki:
wiki.archlinux.org
And if you don't know which compression algorithm to use, see this benchmark on phoronix:
phoronix.com
And the bootloader ArchWiki page for compatibility reasons:
wiki.archlinux.org
Samuel Cruz
use freebsd + zfs
Zachary Sanders
let him use btrfs if his drive is full he can't delete files :D
Aiden Thompson
bcachefs is the hot new filesystem for neets
Alexander Evans
just fidget with the block size and node count. i already use btrfs without compression and it works fine.
i already read those. i was looking for an estimate of compression ratio from somebody who uses it.
i wish but none of the bsd are hardware compatible. i often run openbsd in a vm on my laptops.
why not? i've never had that problem before.
Jacob Roberts
because btrfs needs to allocate meta data to delete files
Jonathan Carter
yeah i know but it's not like metadata is read-only or anything. you can delete files and associated meta-data easily. i currently use it and cleaning it up every month or two keeps it running well.
i looked into it but it doesn't provide anything i need that btrfs can't do. if it were in the mainline kernel i would consider it but it's not worth the work for me.
Hudson Mitchell
I use Btrfs with LZO compression on all of my root partitions. Even with LZO, the compression level is significant, I've never had any issues, and decompression is almost instantaneous
Eli Long
it's shit
don't use it unless you want to lose data
ZFS is barely out of the sketchy phase. Even now I have some reservations about recovery in the event of certain types of cascading failure.
>b-b-but muh backups
Bentley Ross
thanks for the info. i just found somebody's blog that showed a compression ratio of 43% with zlib which is very impressive. i was thinking of going lzo just because it's well supported and has the fastest decompression. thanks again, user.
Luke Stewart
niggers
Ryan Garcia
I used to run MurderFS3 unironically on Gentoo
Henry Sanchez
BCACHEFS FGTS
Ayden Bell
>digits
it's still too much work for a fresh install on most distros. if i was using gentoo i would consider it.
David Morris
>28 28 555
I for one welcome our new Bcache Filesystem overlord
Robert Cruz
tfs > all your meme shit
Adam Phillips
is zfs even for personal use? I read it's used only in servers because it's storage and CPU hungry
Justin Wright
Dragonflybsd + hammer2
Grayson Collins
I don't know about CPU hungry, I've certainly had no issues of that sort.
>storage hungry
What does that even mean? I assume you mean ram hungry? The ram usage is kinda deceptive. Its cache (of sorts) is reported as used ram, not as cache, and is only freed when the amount of usable (free + cache) memory is running low. So it may seem to be hogging all your ram, when that's not the case. Plus you can restrict the maximum usage if you want to, something like .5G should be enough afaik.