Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

[Álvaro Castillo]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 03:36:10PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com
> >wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:12:34AM -0800, Zach Brown wrote:
> > > > > So there are a couple of issues with btrfs which I believe
> absolutely
> > > > > must be fixed before it can become the default
> > > >
> > > > I'd agree, though I'd have a different list of pet bugs.
> > > >
> > > > But that's a subjective judgement.  I'd be the first to admit that
> I'm
> > > > pretty risk averse, especially when it comes to losing data and
> > > > rendering machines unbootable.
> > >
> > > I think both of us are making a subjective judgement.  For myself, I
> > > "want to believe" in btrfs, having championed immutable
> > > state/wandering trees, and real databases for many years.
> > >
> > > BUT I'm deeply unhappy about data corrupting bugs being effectively
> > > ignored by upstream for months.  That's not good.
> > >
> > >
> > I see no data corruption bugs that have been reported that are being
> > ignored, link to the email?  The invalidate stuff was causing problems
> (not
> > a btrfs problem, we just got hurt by it the most), and it looks like
> those
> > were cleared up.  I'm working on the only data corruption problem I know
> of
> > at the moment and it's not super clear its a data corruption problem.
>
> The link is:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863978
>
> Reported upstream here:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/20257
>
> I'd love this to have been fixed upstream somewhere.  It is still
> affecting Fedora, but we can pull in the fix if you can point to it.
>
> Rich.
>
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Maybe is not good idea. Wait when btrfs launch officialy a least 1 stable
version, because nothing 1 release yet.

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Álvaro Castillo

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