On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 22:02:32 -0700 suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com wrote:
Apart from a howtoforge article and a couple of pages on the btrfs wiki I couldn't find beginner level documentation to get familiar with the command line tools for btrfs. Could you point me to some resources to get started?
There are man pages for each of the tools in the btrfs package, btrfs-progs.
/usr/share/man/man8/btrfs-image.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/btrfs-show.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/btrfsck.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/btrfsctl.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.btrfs.8.gz
Because of your inquiry, I also did some research. Btrfs sounded like the bees knees, but I got cold feet when I read all the warnings about it being suitable only for benchmarking and testing, and not to run any production or even slightly valuable information on it. I was going to run F14 on it when I install it. Think I'll stick with ext4 now. Or maybe not. :-)