Will Endeavour OS ever move to BTRFS?

otherbarry · October 21, 2020, 4:24pm

Tried it once … file system totally itself … once bitten.

ricklinux · October 21, 2020, 4:31pm

I am using the Btrfs setup on the wiki by @2000 and it is working great.

ricklinux · October 21, 2020, 5:18pm

I think it may be that people try Btrfs and maybe it’s not set up properly because it is difficult to wrap your head around it. Then when stuff goes haywire they blame the file system. The fact is it’s been around a long time and being used by well known high end Linux distros. I also like xfs file system because it’s fast.

LizziAS · October 21, 2020, 5:34pm

Or maybe it just isn’t trustworthy

ricklinux · October 21, 2020, 5:40pm

Maybe that’s just a perception you have because you had a bad experience?

LizziAS · October 21, 2020, 5:51pm

Or maybe you’re just wrong

BONK · October 21, 2020, 5:56pm

I run two 1tib ssds in btrfs raid 0 as my home partition and have been for almost a year hasn’t broken yet. Guess I am just lucky

ricklinux · October 21, 2020, 6:00pm

Well I’m using it and I like the way i have it set up. So far it’s been great! All I’m saying is don’t let a bad experience taint your judgement. You haven’t tried this set up and i do believe that the @2000 is somewhat of an expert on this Btrfs setup.

LizziAS · October 21, 2020, 6:06pm

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fooling me a third time will never happen.

keybreak · October 21, 2020, 6:54pm

jiibus · October 21, 2020, 7:21pm

I mean BTrFS can’t be that bad if the Arch team uses it for most of their infrastructure.

ringo · October 21, 2020, 8:00pm

curius how many subvolumes do you have?

ricklinux · October 22, 2020, 1:32am

What ever the set up is that @2000 created. I’m running it on all my systems. I have triple boot with one being Luks encryption and the other two are not plus using rEFInd. Then I have another dual boot with Windows 10 and Luks encryption. Then I have another single boot no encryption on MBR.

Meow · October 22, 2020, 2:05am

Garuda uses it in the Calamares. Maybe theirs can be borrowed/influenced by until Calamares adds support.

ricklinux · October 22, 2020, 3:25am

[ricklinux@eos-plasma ~]$ sudo btrfs subv list /
[sudo] password for ricklinux: 
ID 257 gen 41177 top level 5 path @home
ID 268 gen 41141 top level 5 path @var-cache-pacman-pkg
ID 269 gen 40741 top level 5 path @swap
ID 945 gen 41177 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2020-10-03_14-09-22/@
ID 1241 gen 41141 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2020-10-03_14-11-39/@
ID 1242 gen 41141 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2020-10-03_14-16-41/@
ID 1243 gen 41141 top level 5 path @
ID 1322 gen 41141 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2020-10-06_11-00-01/@
ID 1329 gen 41141 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2020-10-07_11-00-01/@
ID 1335 gen 41141 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2020-10-08_11-00-02/@
ID 1344 gen 41141 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2020-10-09_11-45-07/@
ID 1437 gen 41141 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2020-10-17_00-53-14/@
ID 1550 gen 40887 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2020-10-21_01-19-26/@
ID 1552 gen 40954 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2020-10-21_11-02-44/@
ID 1553 gen 40954 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2020-10-21_12-38-00/@
ID 1554 gen 41141 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2020-10-21_23-16-06/@
ID 1555 gen 41143 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2020-10-21_23-16-38/@
[ricklinux@eos-plasma ~]$