Re: 2.6.36-rc1 btrfs still unstable

2010-08-26 Thread Xavier Nicollet
Le 25 août 2010 à 18:57, Johannes Hirte a écrit: the other big question is: Is btrfs with 2.6.36 really rockstable and ready to use in productive environments? I don't think so. There is at least one checksum bug and ENOSPC problems are also still present. I am planning to put 2

Re: 2.6.36-rc1 btrfs still unstable

2010-08-25 Thread Johannes Hirte
On Monday 16 August 2010 16:17:54 Morten P.D. Stevens wrote: Hi Chris, the other big question is: Is btrfs with 2.6.36 really rockstable and ready to use in productive environments? Thanks Morten I don't think so. There is at least one checksum bug and ENOSPC problems are also

Re: 2.6.36-rc1 btrfs still unstable

2010-08-17 Thread Carlos R. Mafra
On Mo 16.Aug'10 at 11:45:29 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: Note that Btrfs does not yet have a fsck tool that can fix errors. While Btrfs is stable on a stable machine, it is currently possible to corrupt a filesystem irrecoverably if your machine crashes or loses power. This will be

Re: 2.6.36-rc1 btrfs still unstable

2010-08-17 Thread Rodrigo E . De León Plicet
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Note that Btrfs does not yet have a fsck tool that can fix errors.   While Btrfs is stable on a stable machine, it is currently possible   to corrupt a filesystem irrecoverably if your machine crashes or   loses power.  This

Re: 2.6.36-rc1 btrfs still unstable

2010-08-16 Thread Chris Mason
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:46:22AM +0300, Ameya Palande wrote: Hi Chris, Today I was checking the Kconfig option for btrfs and it still says, Btrfs filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL) Unstable disk format I remember that some time back we had discussion about this on meego-dev mailing list:

RE: 2.6.36-rc1 btrfs still unstable

2010-08-16 Thread Morten P.D. Stevens
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Chris Mason chris.ma...@oracle.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:46:22AM +0300, Ameya Palande wrote: Hi Chris, Today I was checking the Kconfig option for btrfs and it still says, Btrfs filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL) Unstable disk format I remember

Re: 2.6.36-rc1 btrfs still unstable

2010-08-16 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, the other big question is: Is btrfs with 2.6.36 really rockstable and ready to use in productive environments? No, certainly not until there's a working fsck tool -- at the moment it's rather easy to kill a btrfs by just losing power. I just added a paragraph to the main

Re: 2.6.36-rc1 btrfs still unstable

2010-08-16 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I don't think the signboards are big enough. Sure; that's why I tried to make one of them larger. Most people assume that there is some way of fixing a broken file system, and finding out the btrfs does not have one usually is quite surprising and just a little too late.

Re: 2.6.36-rc1 btrfs still unstable

2010-08-16 Thread Diego Calleja
On Lunes, 16 de Agosto de 2010 17:45:29 Chris Ball escribió: Note that Btrfs does not yet have a fsck tool that can fix errors. While Btrfs is stable on a stable machine, it is currently possible to corrupt a filesystem irrecoverably if your machine crashes or loses power. This

Re: 2.6.36-rc1 btrfs still unstable

2010-08-16 Thread Chris Samuel
On 16/08/10 18:46, Ameya Palande wrote: Today I was checking the Kconfig option for btrfs and it still says, Btrfs filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL) Unstable disk format I have a memory that there was still a possible disk format change in the pipeline, am I misremembering, Chris M. ? cheers! Chris