[GRLUG] BTRFS subvolumes

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> So I've upgraded to the latest awesome [openSUSE 12.1 w/GNOME3]. This
> means I have the long anticipated btrfs filesystem which merges much of
> MD, LVM, and XFS into one sweet layer of featureful goodness.
>
> So I can stripe, mirror, compress, uncompress, snapshot, release,
> shrink, grow, defragment, subdivide, and merge with wild abandon.
>
> But I'm puzzled that I don't see any way to report (a) capacity
> utilization by subvolume [or snapshot] and (b) no way to benchmark I/O
> by subvolume. Am I missing something?

No idea; even the btrfs users in the gentoo-users mailing list haven't
seemed to have accrued much deep experience with it yet. Keep this
thread live with whatever you learn...

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