Re: Running Out of Inodes

[Paul Jewell <paul@teulu.org>]

I ran into this problem several months back, so I re-installed with 
brtfs. No issues at all, and never looked back!

On 16/11/2021 08:14, Jaft via wrote:
>   Oh, that's really cool. Good to know; I've never used anything outside of (ex)fat, ntfs, or ext4 and btrfs sounds interesting. I may have to play around with it more extensively, at some point.
> Jonathan
>      On Sunday, November 14, 2021, 09:18:22 PM CST, Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann@kolabnow.com> wrote:
>   
>   Hello Jonathan,
>
> Em domingo, 14 de novembro de 2021, às 15:47:54 -03, Jaft via escreveu:
>> Out of curiosity, I read that Btrfs requires periodic
>> fragmentation; how often do you find yourself doing it and do you use
>> any particular program for it (if you don't mind sharing, of course; I
>> know it's not directly Guix related)?
> I use btrfs for several years now — not with Guix System, though I do have
> Guix installed on top of Ubuntu on btrfs so I do have /gnu/store on btrfs.
> My experience is that it is zero-maintenance, at least on a personal laptop
> workload.
>
> Btrfs has matured a lot over the years, so there’s a fair amount of
> outdated advice still floating around on the Internet. You’re probably
> thinking of the ‘btrfs balance’ command. In the past, it was useful to run
> it every once in a while to avoid spurious ENOSPC errors. This problem has
> since been fixed, and current advice is that regular use of “btrfs balance”
> is now considered detrimental rather than beneficial since it puts more
> load/stress on the disk without any practical benefit.
>