There's a decent guide on the net for a btrfs setup of gentoo...managed to hack my way through the install for the desktop NitroPC mini Ive been playing with.

https://gist.github.com/xmawja/da6a7ee664271631ae5cd4de0dc4f249

Not for the faint of heart, I borked my boot a few times had to chroot in and completely rebuild it more than once, but finally got it to boot with timeshift saving snapshots and grub-btrfs adding them to the boot menu. Next up swing ifnthose will actually restore and testing the openRC daemon for autoupdating the grub menu. I'll write it.up eventually 😆

#Linux #gentoo #btrfs

I've been transitioning my home computers from #Manjaro to #Solus #Linux because I noticed that Solus puts out weekly updates and Manjaro moves far more slowly.

I thought I'd give #BTRFS a try instead of #ext4 since on Manjaro, BTRFS has become the default and it worked well.

For some reason, it really didn't play well with Solus. I couldn't log into #Element at all and I had problems running #Cyberpunk2077 with #Heroic.

I reinstalled with ext4 and those problems went away.

I did, for some reason, have trouble installing Heroic from the repo and had to use #Flatpak instead, but I'm getting more comfortable with those. I let the computer redownload CPB2077 overnight and tried to run it this morning. It even remembered my progress, which was a fear.

Does anyone have experience with using filesystem compression on laptops? Personally, I'm thinking of running BTRFS with zstd compression on mine, but I'm kind of wondering if it would be bad for battery life.

#btrfs

AlmaLinux 10.2 Lavender Lion Beta supports older CPUs while RHEL moves on

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/almalinux-10-2-beta-lavender-lion/

Vanilla Arch with CachyOS repos layered on. Two kernels for two workloads. BTRFS so I can break things and not care.

Tested the rollback by installing KDE, hating it, restoring the snapshot. Two minutes, back to where I started. Did it again with GNOME.

https://blog.vintagetechie.com/posts/building-my-system-piece-by-piece

#Arch #BTRFS #Linux

For #beesd (#btrfs) is:

volume size * 4 / 1024, converted into MB, and then rounded up to the next whole integer that is divisible by 16 a good formula for estimating the hashTableSize?

Good gods I forgot @Ylfingr wrote this

https://git.brightfur.net/ylfingr/btrfs-unreachable-dependency-tracker

The whole thing is cursed. The whole SITUATION is cursed. I bet this is the issue I'm seeing again tonight.

*snootdesks.*

(btrfs can wind up in a state where you have to defrag _very specific files_ to free up the black-hole unreachable space, and defragging everything either does nothing or makes it WORSE.)

#btrfs

#Btrfs copies read/write error statistics from a replaced disk in a RAID1 to the new one. One can reset those numbers manually.

Still, this is a bad design decision IMO.

#linux