Hi Neil, On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 10:32 +0200, ext Neil McGovern wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:37:44PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Neil, what is the specific problems you are having with btrfs on "real" > > sized storage devices (not for 1-2Gb devices, that's a different issue.) > > > > The remaining issues with btrfs that I'm aware of, (and please note, I'm > really quite excited by it, it'll be great when it's ready) > > 1) On disk format - This was due to be stabilised by 2009, and it's > still not. A standardised on disk format must be a pre-requisite to > using it as a default file system.
I asked this question and got a reply from btrfs developer/maintainer that it is stable, and the text in btrfs kernel kconfig option is outdated. > 2) File system support - various utilities still don't support btrfs, > especially bootloaders (RedBoot, grub etc) We can have a small ext3 formatted /boot partition. > 3) btrfs still does not handle all out-of-space conditions gracefully If this is true then please do post to brtfs dev mailing list ccing meego-dev. If there are still serious issues then of course nobody will like to switch to btrfs ;) > 4) lvm useage requires write-caching turned off, but if it's not, it > can't handle the corruption > > 5) Failed checksums will not in any way initiate a repair > > Hope this helps, > Neil Cheers, Ameya. _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
