Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

2017-09-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 09:02:24PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > True enough. > But with Redhat voting with their feet it will make the uptake of BTRFS much > slower if at all. I am not sure btrfs is quite ready for production use yet, so not sure why redhat ever supported doing so in the

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

2017-09-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 10:18:19PM -0400, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > Something as complex as a FS needs corporate support, and no company > wishes to be associated with a convicted murderer. Reiser was also > famously difficult to get along with (a sample of one of his rants is > here:

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

2017-09-03 Thread Alvin Starr via talk
On 09/03/2017 10:18 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: On 2017-09-03 09:56 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: True enough but the project could have been picked up by others. Something as complex as a FS needs corporate support, and no company wishes to be associated with a convicted

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

2017-09-03 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
On 2017-09-03 09:56 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > > True enough but the project could have been picked up by others. Something as complex as a FS needs corporate support, and no company wishes to be associated with a convicted murderer. Reiser was also famously difficult to get along with (a

Re: [GTALUG] [OFF TOPIC] Brave new Browser

2017-09-03 Thread Don Tai via talk
I just installed it yesterday, and it seems much faster than Firefox and Chrome. I'll play with it some more. There seems to be a lack of plugins, but the only one I wanted was ad-block plus, which seems to be built-in. Don On 3 September 2017 at 20:36, Stewart C. Russell via talk

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

2017-09-03 Thread Alvin Starr via talk
On 09/03/2017 09:40 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: On 2017-09-03 09:02 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: Remember Reiserfs? … Much more reliable then the equivalent ext systems but non-technology related issues killed it. Very much technology related, it seems to me. It's hard to manage

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

2017-09-03 Thread Alvin Starr via talk
On 09/03/2017 09:20 PM, Dhaval Giani wrote: On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 9:02 PM Alvin Starr via talk > wrote: On 09/03/2017 02:53 PM, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 2:13 PM William Park via talk

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

2017-09-03 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
On 2017-09-03 09:02 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > > Remember Reiserfs? … Much more reliable then the equivalent ext > systems but non-technology related issues killed it. Very much technology related, it seems to me. It's hard to manage patch requests when your lead architect is serving 15

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

2017-09-03 Thread Robert Brockway via talk
On Sun, 3 Sep 2017, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: True enough. But with Redhat voting with their feet it will make the uptake of BTRFS much slower if at all. Remember Reiserfs? I was a great filesystem at least for my use. Much more reliable then the equivalent ext systems but non-technology

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

2017-09-03 Thread Dhaval Giani via talk
On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 9:02 PM Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > On 09/03/2017 02:53 PM, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 2:13 PM William Park via talk > wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 05:52:12PM +, Dhaval Giani wrote: >> > On Sun,

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

2017-09-03 Thread Alvin Starr via talk
On 09/03/2017 02:53 PM, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 2:13 PM William Park via talk > wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 05:52:12PM +, Dhaval Giani wrote: > On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 1:41 PM William Park via talk

Re: [GTALUG] Request for a talk (or a doc)

2017-09-03 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
On 2017-09-02 12:33 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > > But no matter. Most of what I want can now be done easily using my > newly-mapped Compose key. Guess it can't be a standard location because > there is still a diversity of hardware keyboard layouts out there. Sun keyboards had it

Re: [GTALUG] [OFF TOPIC] Brave new Browser

2017-09-03 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
On 2017-09-02 05:22 AM, Slack Rat via talk wrote: > Does anyone have any comments on Brendan Eich's new "Brave" > browser? Aside from my personal issues with Brendan Eich, I find Brave to be rather slow. The problem's not my machine, as I'm running a 4 GHz quad core with 32 GB RAM. It also

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

2017-09-03 Thread Dhaval Giani via talk
On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 2:13 PM William Park via talk wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 05:52:12PM +, Dhaval Giani wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 1:41 PM William Park via talk > > wrote: > > > Now, I read (it's an old news, though) that BTRFS is being

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

2017-09-03 Thread William Park via talk
On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 05:52:12PM +, Dhaval Giani wrote: > On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 1:41 PM William Park via talk > wrote: > > Now, I read (it's an old news, though) that BTRFS is being "deprecated" > > by Redhat, and presumably others will follow. > > Where have you read

[GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

2017-09-03 Thread William Park via talk
I have BTRFS filesystem used for backup. I chose BTRFS because it can consolidate old leftover harddisks of various sizes into one big pool, and it can do "snapshot" which is pretty cheap way to do daily, weekly, monthly backups. Now, I read (it's an old news, though) that BTRFS is being