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What Are Btrfs Subvolumes? And Why They’re Better Than Traditional Linux Partitions (itsfoss.com)

submitted 3 days ago by costalfy@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] Mucki@feddit.org -1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Does btrfs still slow down the system until freezing, when doing snapshots of the sys subvolume? I never used btrfs again. Imagine, you set a cron for hourly snapshots, and what you get is 2 minutes of freezing every full hour 🙈 I never had that kind of trouble with other snapshotable file systems as sys volume.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

What year did you use btrfs?

5-10 years ago it was a mess. It is way better now.

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This can happen when gquotas are enabled, thats why gquotas are not recommended with snapshots

[–] Mucki@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

I'll dig into that.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

Never experienced that before. I have been on openSUSE for 9 years now, snapshots are pretty much instantaneous.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 6 points 3 days ago

Never had this. It's pretty much instanteneous.