[Nottingham] Video of btrfs demo

[Martin]

On 9 November 2011 11:49, Jason Irwin <jasonirwin73 at gmail.com> wrote:
> From another list (EdLUG as it happens).  Rather interesting little
> video on BTRFS.
>
> J.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> This may be of interest to some readers - a demonstration of the use of the
> btrfs filesystem (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs)
>
> Greg Kroah-Hartmann and Matthias Eckermann of SUSE demo the use of
> filesystem
> snapshot and rollback.
>
> Demo starts approx 2:15 into the vid, and ends at about 9:00.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H7e6BcI5Fo

Good giggle and a good demo. Especially for the accidental and then
the deliberately accidental mistakes. Thanks for that.

That is a rather nice GUI wrapper around the btrfs snapshot
functionality. The clever bit is integrating the diff reporting and
giving a nice point 'n' click restore. Good stuff.

Shame about the monotone deadpan business hype from the compere... The
kernel announcement magic pause was cringingly painful! I could make
allusions to a certain butler from an old American TV series... :->


Roll on a full fsck and support for large chunk sizes ( >4kBytes, for
use on SSDs for example ) for btrfs.

Cheers,
Martin