I also have not seen any issues like this, and have been using btrfs with GNOME for atleast a couple of years, on Ubuntu and Gentoo. On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 01:46 +0000, Leslie S Satenstein via gnome-shell-list wrote:
Do not (as 5 October) use Gnome with btrfs. You can experience gnome-shell looping with 99% cpu busy, schemas not being adhered to, and problems because btrfs uses copy-on-write. I have 5 copies of Gnome 3.26 with ext4, brtfs fully, btrrs with xfs for /home and more. I can substantiate the btrfs problem. Like any scientific experiment, you can duplicate my findings. Gnome is safe with a non "copy on write" file system. Regards Leslie Leslie Satenstein Montréal Québec, Canada ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Leslie S Satenstein via gnome-shell-list <gnome-shell-list gnome org> To: Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org>; Gnome-shell-list <gnome-shell-list@ gnome.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 6:16 PM Subject: Gnome extensions Hi Florian I'm using a few of your Gnome extensions. I thank you for providing them to the community. I do have a question for you regarding the gnome-shell. I have extensions (several that include yours), where the installation (doing the settings) onto a btrfs file system crashes the shell, or causes the shell to go into a 99.9% cpu loop. If I install these extensions onto a non btrfs system, eg, ext4, lvm, xfs , the installation and extension setup works flawlessly. I use most of your extensions, that come globally with Fedora Linux (currently using the Fedora beta 1.5, the pending go-live beta). I am using it fully with btrfs. I can crash the shell with one or two extensions, only if the underlying file system is btrfs As the gnome-shell gets maintenance updates, I am see fewer and fewer crashes, but not with btrfs. The crashes only occur during parameter setup. It seems that the gnome-shell does not wrongly read the compiled schema or ignores the compiled schema. Have you stress tested Gnome-shell under btrfs? My preferred third party extension that works perfectly with ext4 and xfs is TaskBar by Zpydr. I am walking through the source code and with my level of JS knowledge, find no errors. Setting TaskBar up onto a btrfs system crashes the shell, but on logging in after a crash, I see settings outside of the schema settings. After a few crashes, when the settings are what I wanted, every extension works as anticipated. By the way, I am not the author of this extension. The author appears to have abandoned his offering. What is his extension and one or two others exercising that cause this grief. I am wondering if recompiling the schemas while under btrfs would make a difference. I will give it a try. gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
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