[lxc-users] Btrfs - Disk quota and Ubuntu 15.10

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

On 2016-06-30 17:38, Sjoerd wrote:
> On 29/06/2016 20:02, Benoit GEORGELIN - Association Web4all wrote:
>> Hi, (without hijacking another thread)
>> 
>> I'm sharing with you some information about BTRFS and Ubuntu 15.10,
>> Kernel  4.2.0-30-generic regarding a quota disk error on my LXC
>> containers
>> If you plan tu use quota, this will be interesting for you to know.
> 
> Yes I just read it on the btrfs-mailinglist ;)
> 
> Anway besides the problems you describe, using quota also brings down
> btrfs send/receive speed to a crawl.
> I am backing up my containers with btrfs send/receive and because of
> all the quota problems described I am not using it anymore.

Please note that btrfs is not a stable filesystem, at least not in the 
latest Ubuntu (16.04).

You may have "out of space" errors with them, especially when doing 
snapshots.

kernels 4.6.x[1] behave stable for me.


[1] working with Ubuntu, from 
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/


Tomasz Chmielewski
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