[clug] zfs on linux ... and state of btrfs

Carlo Hamalainen carlo at carlo-hamalainen.net
Tue Jul 23 00:08:47 MDT 2013


On 23/07/13 15:58, Andrew Janke wrote:
> I've done a few non-scientific "tests" such as pulling the USB cable
> while it's reading/writing and then letting fsck.btrfs sort things
> out. Again no issues. I'm also using the snapshot feature along with
> rsync as a form of backup.

What about checksums? I wrote a utility to compute md5sums on my digital 
camera backup directory which I can compare against md5sums computed on 
Amazon S3. It works, and is easy to manage, but seems a bit clunky. I'd 
like to ask the filesystem "is everything here ok and is anything missing?".

> I will say that the ability to mount previous snapshots is pretty nifty.

That sounds good.

-- Carlo


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