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Hi,

I had to go through a lot of trouble to install LMDE with the following partitioning: ext2 /boot, btrfs / and btrfs /home. This was the same partitioning I used for Mint 10 on the same machine. It was pretty complicated to get it to work on LMDE and I would not like to have to repeat the process (included having to chroot in after install). It's been running without any problems after that though. This machine is used for a lot of large file transfers and btrfs is quite a bit faster than ext4 (twice as fast for rsync jobs to external drives!). I was wondering if the installer has been fixed. and if not when it is likely to happen?

I've done LMDE installation on partitioning similiar to yours and it runs without problems (64 bit version). It was about one month ago.

1) BTRFS is known to be slower than ext4. It is not a miracle filesystem.
2) LMDE was never advertised as a distribution fully supporting btrfs. Consider the fact its experimental?

m.keane wrote:1) BTRFS is known to be slower than ext4. It is not a miracle filesystem.

Not on my rig. Large rsync file copy operations between drives which I've done a lot and know exactly how long took on ext4 took far less with btrfs. Could just be my setup working well with btrfs I guess

2) LMDE was never advertised as a distribution fully supporting btrfs. Consider the fact its experimental?

I know it's experimental, but it's been quite stable for me, and it's used on quite well backed up systems.