Are you using it as a single partition install, and/or any raid
with btrfs?
My idea is to replace mdadm, the fact I have to make /boot first,
and all the other complexities of the layers that come with. I'm
not fond of the notion of file-based encryption with encfs, I
prefer the whole disk as with SSD, I see no performance
degradation as with a spinner+encryption.
Much like yourself, I was intending to play with lvmcache with
this build around my bigger spinners (damn game installs are huge
these days to keep on ssd), but otherwise really would love to
just do away with all of that and use zfs/btrfs in one suite for
the disk management for all that can do the caching internally
too.
ZFS is attractive for zpool functionality, but much of it is in
theory same as what btrfs offers so I don't have much of a pref.
I'll be using these on some nvme drives, so I doubt I'd need
another fast(er) disk to cache zilog too, but would be nice for
some 2tb disks I'm putting in for games and such would be nice.
-mb
On 12/03/2016 12:33 PM, Stephen
Partington wrote:
So far btrfs has been treating my server very
nicely
On Dec 3, 2016 12:22 PM, "Michael
Butash" <mike@butash.net> wrote:
Anyone
using "alternative" file system methods like btrfs or zfs to
boot with? Nothing seems too native, but can be made to
work it seems, just wondering if this is one of those
"should do" vs. "can do".
The notion of something that can do raid, encryption, volume
management, and snapshot features is attractive, but I've
always layered mdraid, luks encryption, lvm, then ext atop
that. This has been pretty solid when the ssd's don't die
3-6 months later, even with aligning partition to block
boundaries and such, trim, etc. I'd love to have one single
encrypted partitions I can use volumes within for the os
mounts, btrfs and zfs in theory do most of this now.
How well is really the question...
Commentary appreciated!
-mb
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