After months of expectation, I irrevocably lost a 4TB #btrfs volume today because it ran out of metadata space, and there was no way I could coax it out of read-only mode - even by extending it with a loopback.

Good riddance, and thank goodness for backups!

I wrote a short guide for installing Slackware64-current with @ and @home using the standard installer.

https://codeberg.org/r1w1s1/code-notes/raw/branch/master/notes/README_BTRFS.TXT
#slackware #btrfs

Hey @rl_dane, sorry I wasn't able to write every day, but I compiled a couple of topics I wanted to write about in this post

Some topics: #sport, #zettelkasten, #plaintext, #movies, #JurassicPark, #btrfs, and other things

#gratitude #blog #fediverse #blogging
https://lazybea.rs/gd6-18

I tried tuning various parameters but after some reading came to the conclusion that lots of small files with very little RAM is about the worst case scenario for XFS.

#linux #snac #btrfs