Hi! On Monday 13 December 2010 14.54:56 Dave Howorth wrote:
> I don't know much about btrfs so please excuse me if this is a stupid
> question, but is btrfs mature enough to want to trust it to hold your
> backups?
Depends.
For my personal stuff: yes. Would I use it in a commercial/mission critical
application? No. [1]
So extending the manpage entry in the patch (which is admittedly quite
rudimentary anyway) with something like "NOTE: btrfs is currently still
under development. Use of this option with care." might be a good idea.
cheers
-- vbi
[1] I'm using btrfs as /home on my personal machines and laptopos at work
and at home; I also use it as the fs on the storage where my backups are,
but right now without this patch - obviously I plan to change this - and I
haven't had any data loss, even after stuff like failed wake up after
suspend to disk/ram etc. OTOH: I *do* sync the most important stuff from
the btrfs dirvish trees onto an external USB HD (which is ext3 formatted)
occasionally.
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