On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:21:23PM -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: > Is anyone using btrfs in day-to-day operation? I'm going to be rebuilding > my workstation, probably this weekend, and I was wondering if it was a > viable alternative to ext4. It appears to have a lot of useful features, > but if it isn't stable, I'll stick with ext4.
I have been using it, and in practice it works well. However, I would be reluctant to trust it too much at this point. - it still lacks a fsck tool. If you do have a problem, there is no means of repairing the damage, and the chance of losing data is high - it's still classed as experimental - the performance is good for some workloads, but awful for others; in particular fsync is expensive, and the performance of dpkg is abysmal in comparison with ext3/4 Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
