Btrfs Assistant 1.0 is coming, testers needed

[dalto]

@BluishHumility

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@BluishHumility

qt.core.qmetaobject.connectslotsbyname: QMetaObject::connectSlotsByName: No matching signal for on_toolButton_snapperChangeDescription_clicked()

I will take a look at this one. Although, I just tested with the old version and it was there too. Still. It should be fixed.

@BluishHumility

The window that opens on the right-click is inappropriately large for some reason.

Hmm…I am not seeing this one in my testing.

[BluishHumility]

I replaced Kvantum with kvantum-git, and now the window is normal-sized with btrfs-assistant-git.

There must be some accommodations for Qt6 that have not trickled down to the stable package yet. So I guess it was just some Kvantum weirdness after all.

[dalto]

@BluishHumility

qt.core.qmetaobject.connectslotsbyname: QMetaObject::connectSlotsByName: No matching signal for on_toolButton_snapperChangeDescription_clicked()

This should be fixed.

[Brtza]

Is there a need for any other tools other than btrfs-assistant and btrfs-maintenance ?
And how frequent do we need balance/scrub/defrag ?

Any other recommendations ?

Thanks

[dalto]

@Brtza

Is there a need for any other tools other than btrfs-assistant and btrfs-maintenance ?

If you want snapshot management, you can add snapper.

@Brtza

And how frequent do we need balance/scrub/defrag ?

There is no right answer here as it depends on your usage. However, I think monthly is a good default.

[Brtza]

Thanks for your reply.

Just one last question. What do you suggest for swap.

I searched on internet, and there is a lot of cons and pros about swap file, swap partition, zram and zswap. Also depending if you have SSD ( health of drive)

I thought maybe going with zram is ok ?

[dalto]

@Brtza

What do you suggest for swap.

There is no right answer here. It is highly dependent on your hardware config and your specific usage.

@Brtza

I thought maybe going with zram is ok ?

Sure. zram is a fine choice for most desktop workloads.

[Zesko]

@Brtza

And how frequent do we need balance/scrub/defrag ?
Any other recommendations ?

I don’t need to use btrfs-maintenance to do auto scrub, balancing and defrag.

• I would manually run defrag to re-compress files when I change compression-level or -method for those files. (I would delete all snapshots before running defrag for stability reasons)

• I manually run balance data after deleting many snapshots, including a lot of unused old data. I wouldn’t have to balance metadata, but rather data.

• In general, monthly auto scrubbing is acceptable.

However, I do not use auto scrubbing

The auto checking is already integrated into the Btrfs reading process. When I open any app to load or read files, btrfs checks the app’s binary and these files in real time, but I wouldn’t notice if they are corrupt in a dmesg log. For this reason I installed btrfs-desktop-notification-git ,which promptly notifies me.
Without notification, auto scrubbing is useless.

[milkytwix]

yay just made this topic obsolete - congrats for version 2!

[dalto]

There is a new topic here:

Btrfs Assistant 2.0 available

I just pushed the update to Btrfs Assistant 2.0. The primary change in the latest version is that it was ported to Qt6. There are also three additional changes: Added percentage value display for filesystem utilization(Contributed by Nikolas Koesling) CLI snapshots are now restored via an index to make the process more user friendly Changed timestamp on subvol backups to UTC and ISO format If you have existing build files on your system you might need to cleanbuild the package due to the sw…