Hello list, At this point in time, btrfs has gained a lot of interest, and not only a passing one. So, it is, imho, the ideal time to build up a survey to monitor how btrfs is used today (or _was_ used - I have knowledge of people that started to use it but dropped for various reasons).
Of course, I'm only one user among many, but here is a sample of questions for this survey in case anyone is interested: * Do you use btrfs currently? [ ] yes, but not as a root filesystem [ ] yes, as a root filesystem [ ] no * If not, what prevents you from using them? [ ] lack of a full blown fsck [ ] horror stories from other users [ ] lack of support from my favorite distribution [ ] other * If yes, how long have you used it? [ put answers here related to milestones in btrfs design - I don't know them ] * Do you use the following features of btrfs: [ ] defragment [ ] online shrink [ ] online expand [ ] snapshots [ ] RAID [ ] [others - I only mention the ones I know] * How many btrfs filesystems do you currently have? [ ] 1 only [ ] 2-5 [ ] More than 5 * How many btrfs filesystems have failed upon you? [ ] None! [ ] [etc etc] Well, all in all, you get the idea, and I'm probably not the guy to craft questions for such a survey. But having input from as large a panel of users as possible would be a nice thing to have. Comments? -- Francis Galiegue, [email protected] "It seems obvious [...] that at least some 'business intelligence' tools invest so much intelligence on the business side that they have nothing left for generating SQL queries" (Stéphane Faroult, in "The Art of SQL", ISBN 0-596-00894-5) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
