Hi,
Does anyone tried btrfs for root? It gives some speedup compared to ext4?
I’m running openSUSE 11.3 RC1 using ext4 root, with noatime, noacl mount options. But I run it on a laptop with and 5400rpm/8M cache HDD, so any extra speed squeze would be welcome 
Unfortunately I don’t have the time now to test and benchmark, so if someone did it already, pls share with me the results.
inp3dance wrote:
> I’m running openSUSE 11.3 RC1
maybe you forgot, but 11.3 (and, afaik btrfs also) is unreleased
software and all questions/discussions on it (either)? should be in
the forum set up for that purpose:
http://forums.opensuse.org/get-help-here/pre-release-beta/
and, maybe if you ask a mod in PM they will move this thread for you…
others should not answer in the install-boot-login forum…
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The question was not about openSUSE 11.3, but about btrfs. Anyone can use btrfs in openSUSE 11.2 too.
I don’t know anything (yet) about 11.3 (so ‘but 11.3 (and, afaik btrfs also) is unreleased’ doesn’t apply to my comments, wherever this post ought to have been), but I’ve been watching work on BTRFS with interest. There has been some benchmarking - ](http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7547/1.html), Phoronix, Phoronix, and Oracle and boxacle and if you look here at this and the other Jeffery Layton articles, you’ll find some good stuff, even if a lot of it is about the defects in everybody else’s bechmarking procedures…
A brief summary: depending on exactly what test you do and how, you can get pretty much any answer you like as to whether A is faster than B, or B is faster than A (or, in more balanced accounts, both of the above are true).