Michael Stowe wrote at about 20:50:45 +0000 on Wednesday, February 10, 2021: > On 2021-02-09 16:34, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > > > >> G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 14:26:30 +0000 on > >> Friday, February 5, 2021: > >> > > >> > [Red Hat is] dropping BTRFS because they can't support it in the way > >> > they'd > >> > like to for their commercial customers. That's because it's unstable. > >> > It's been said that it's been almost ready for production for about a > >> > decade, and I can't help thinking that it will probably stay that way > >> > until it expires during the heat death of the universe. > >> > >> Any objective data or recent link to such instability. > >> Would be very interested in validating that. > > > > https://access.redhat.com/discussions/3138231 > > Not sure if you misunderstood the question, or didn't follow the link, > or didn't realize it appeared earlier in the thread, but that absolutely > does not qualify as objective data, nor is it particularly accurate. >
Good point! While people will (and should) compare the pros/cons of different filesystems until the end of time (like vi vs. emacs), it is either naive or highly partisan to think that a well-distributed and accepted filesystem like btrfs is 'unstable'. There are huge corporations with investments, capabilities, and data exposure (infinitely larger than mine) that have been working with btrfs for years. It is ridiculous to think that any modern (non experimental) Linux distro would include btrfs as an option let alone as sometimes the default if it were fundamentally unstable. Could there be bugs yet to be uncovered? Sure - that's true for all software and shown in practice every day. Is it likely to be a common, devastating bug that will destroy the average users filesystem (vs. some rare perhaps never to be seen in the real world edge case) -- highly unlikely given the degree of development, review, and real-world use to date. The chance that my data is corrupted due to a hard disk failure, power line surge, or other hardware/software error (let alone my own user error) is likely 10 orders of magnitude higher than intrinsic btrfs instability. There may be many reasons not to choose btrfs but calling it blanket 'unstable' discredits any real arguments one might have. _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
