<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 07:30, Alan Cox <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk">alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Plus in a funny way btrfs is now in part un-needed,</blockquote></div><div><br></div>Funny how so many people think the btrfs designers are morons.<div><br></div><div>Or as if it were a half-baked project cooked hours ago.BTRFS is five years old.</div>
<div><br></div><div>&quot;<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">In 2008, the principal developer of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3" title="Ext3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">ext3</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4" title="Ext4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">ext4</a> file systems, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Ts%27o" title="Theodore Ts&#39;o" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Theodore Ts&#39;o</a>, stated that although <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4" title="Ext4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">ext4</a> has improved features, it is not a major advance, it uses old technology, and is a stop-gap; Ts&#39;o believes that Btrfs is the better direction because &quot;it offers improvements in scalability, reliability, and ease of management&quot;.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup> Btrfs also has &quot;a number of the same design ideas that<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS" title="ReiserFS" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">reiser3</a>/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiser4" title="Reiser4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">4</a> had&quot;.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; ">[</span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0645ad"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap;">5</span></font><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; ">]</span></a>&quot;</sup></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><sup class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-style: normal; "><br></sup></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><sup class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs</a></sup></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">BTRfsck is coming along nicely</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg11836.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg11836.html</a></span></div>
<div><br></div><div>so, let´s cut the FUD, please...</div><div><br></div><div>FC<br>-- <br>&quot;The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.&quot;<br>Richard Hamming - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_code" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_code</a><br>
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