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Interesting. But in our case, we are running Hyper-V VMs (son sadly NTFS on host), were the VMs uses EXT4, and a few uses BTRFS. The only problem that we had,
by Zardoz84 10y ago
Interesting. But in our case, we are running Hyper-V VMs (son sadly NTFS on host), were the VMs uses EXT4, and a few uses BTRFS.
The only problem that we had, was with a uncontrolled poweroff a year ago. Looks that BRTFS had some trouble recovering from it, but we manage to restore all data from the partitions. However, the flexibility that offer BTRFS (transparent compression, increasing hard disk space on demand, etc) is really nice. I hope that it improve more, so we can use it without any issues.
- tremon 10y agoincreasing hard disk space on demand Note that ext4 on LVM can do this as well, you just need to plan for it in advance. All of my systems are configured as fs-on-lvm, even the single-disk ones. I've found it's just less hassle: I can do all storage migration or storage expansion without ever taking the machine offline.
- newman314 10y agoThis. I just realized one of my Ubuntu VMs was built without LVM and only found out because I was going to expand storage on it. Luckily, it's just a toy VM on the home server so no biggie. But yes, having fs-on-lvm should just be the default now since it makes expansion so much easier.