[PVE-User] btrfs in a guest

Lindsay Mathieson lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 01:04:17 CEST 2017


On 16/07/2017 10:28 PM, mj wrote:
> Just a quick question: I am building a new samba 4.6 fileserver on 
> proxmox with ceph storage backend. I am tempted to try btrfs as a 
> filesystem for the samba shares, because of the 'previous versions' 
> functionality. (btrfs + snapshots) 

The Samba server is a Qemu VM?

The backing filesystem (Ceph) should be irrelevant to whatever 
filesystem you use in the VM.


Personally I'd go with zfs over btrf.

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Lindsay Mathieson




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