Re: btrfs on an external HD?
Brad Alexander put forth on 11/24/2010 8:34 PM:
> Hey,
>
> I just picked up a 500GB external USB hard drive. It was formatted as
> VFAT (go figure). I nuked that, and decided to repartition it 400GB
> for Linux and 100GB VFAT. I was considering trying out btrfs on this
> drive, and wanted to get opinions and possibly advice on the best
> approach.
>
> I was thinking about setting up a btrfs filesystem on this drive since
> it will be mainly be data from my home workstation that I will be
> using on my work laptop, so the data will be safely elsewhere. Both
> the home workstation and the work laptop are running sid
> (2.6.32-5-amd64), so it should be a no brainer to set up to run on
> both. In fact, since I used the package list from the workstation,
> everything should be on the laptop as well (e.g. btrfs-tools, etc).
>
> Is this a valid use case for btrfs?
> Is there a set of Debian docs for using btrfs? (I am reading the btrfs wiki)
> Any experiences, positive or negative from using btrfs in this use scenario?
The question you should be asking yourself is "Which filesystems best
fit my desired usage scenario?" instead of "Will btrfs work for this?"
It seems you are placing a desire to run what you believe is a "cool
neat new etc" filesystem ahead of all other considerations.
Pick the right tool for the job Brad. Don't pick a tool and then try to
use it for any/every job.
You're doing it backwards.
--
Stan
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