[Wylug-discuss] Btrfs home server

[John Robert Hudson]

HI Scott

SUSE have been using btrfs for the root partition for some time and they 
introduced it to openSUSE with the current round of releases. But their 
partitioning is fearfully complex to the extent that some users without 
sufficient understanding of how to manage btrfs, including myself, have gone 
back to Ext4.

If someone has openSUSE with the default btrfs, it might offer a template.

Possibly the openSUSE documentation at https://doc.opensuse.org/ might throw 
some light on how they use it.

John

On Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:23:47 BST Scott Hodgson via Wylug-discuss 
wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Wanting to know what peoples thoughts are on setting up the filesystem on a
> home server. Got a 2 x 1tb hard drives setup for raid1.
> I want to use Linux containers for some websites so tried BTRFS. I used sda2
> for uefi sda2 as BTRFS for /. Sda2 was then put in raid with BTRFS and sub
> volumes added. To test, I unplugged one of the drives but upon a reboot it
> went straight to initramfs shell. I sorted that by adding degraded to fstab
> and grub, however even though the partitions have the same uuid, it doesn't
> boot for one of the drives which makes me fear I could lose the
> information. Now I want the function of Btrfs but a bit more easy to use
> FS. My options are have a root partition and a /var partition and then make
> them BTRFS or other suggestions of a FS. Though do I use mdadm raid or
> btrfs raid or zfs raid? What are my options? Anyone have a solution? All
> opinions welcome.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Scktt
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