Re: Blog: BTRFS is effectively stable

2010-10-30 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org wrote: A friend of mine who builds storage systems designed for HPC use has been keeping an eye on btrfs and has just done some testing of it with 2.6.36 and seems to like what he sees in terms of stability. That's a *very*

Re: Blog: BTRFS is effectively stable

2010-10-30 Thread Ahmed Kamal
For example:  No device-yanking tests were done.  No power-cord yanking tests were done.  No device cables were yanked, shaken, or plugged/unplugged in rapid succession.  No dd the raw device underneath the filesystem while doing file I/O tests were done.  No recovery tests were done.

Re: Blog: BTRFS is effectively stable

2010-10-30 Thread Joe Landman
On 10/30/2010 05:19 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Chris Samuelch...@csamuel.org wrote: A friend of mine who builds storage systems designed for HPC use has been keeping an eye on btrfs and has just done some testing of it with 2.6.36 and seems to like what he sees in

Re: Blog: BTRFS is effectively stable

2010-10-29 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, A friend of mine who builds storage systems designed for HPC use has been keeping an eye on btrfs and has just done some testing of it with 2.6.36 and seems to like what he sees in terms of stability. http://scalability.org/?p=2711 This is nice to see, but we should