Question
Getting started with btrfs
- Posted November 30, 2013
I would like to try using btrfs so that I can easily snapshot my application data before rolling out new versions. I don’t need my whole filesystem to be btrfs (as nice as that might be), one mount point (say, /data) would be fine.
Are there any guides for how to repartition disks in the context of Digital Ocean?
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One solution would be to use btrfs with a loop device. Your data will be stored in a btrfs image file.
Note: I recommend you use a recent kernel version (4+). I use BTRFS on my personal system and things are mostly ok, some performance issues when databases/indexing happens. I’ve read that Facebook is preparing to roll it in production systems. The future is bright :)
Some notes: https://meta.discourse.org/t/rough-notes-getting-btrfs-working-on-digital-ocean/20246 http://www.funtoo.org/BTRFS_Fun
Unfortunately we do not support partitioning yet.
u can convert fs from recovery mode.
0 ur root fs should be ext4
now u have btrfs as root fs