[Gluster-users] Bricks as BTRFS

[Venky Shankar]

On Sep 30, 2014 5:00 AM, "Justin Clift" <justin at gluster.org> wrote:
>
> On 25/09/2014, at 7:53 AM, Venky Shankar wrote:
> <snip>
> > Wanted to check if anyone out here uses BTRFS (and willing to share
their experiences[1]) as the backend filesystem for GlusterFS. We're
planning to explore some of it's features and put it to use for GlusterFS.
This was discussed briefly during the weekly meeting on #gluster-meeting[2].
>
>
> In last week's GlusterFS Community Meeting, I volunteered to get a
> VM up and running in Rackspace so people could start getting btrfs
> testing happening.
>
> The requested OS was Fedora 21 (alpha) as it has newer versions of
> stuff than in Fedora 20.
>
> However, I'm having some real problems getting F21 up and running
> in Rackspace.  In a local VM on my desktop, no issue.  In Rackspace
> though, it never (ever) comes back from the reboot after the
> upgrade.  (suspecting due to the PVHVM nature of the VM maybe)
>
> How critical is it for this to be F21 instead of F20?  If it's
> really important, then I'll start getting really creative to get
> F21 on there.  But it's likely to be a bit of a time suck with
> experimentation.

Not critical at all. F20 should suffice.

>
> Or would F20 (extremely easy to do) be good enough for now?

Absolutely. Please go ahead with F20.

>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
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