On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox(a)bzb.us> wrote:
I knew that it was experimental when I first set it up years ago, but I
never imagined
it would still be experimental in 2016. I just got tired of waiting, and
the statement
that it would all most likely have to be rewritten was just the last straw
for me. The
only reason I was using it was because of the ease and flexibility to run
Raid5/6. With
that apparently nowhere now on the horizon, time to cut my loses and move
on.
About the rewrite comment: that did not come from a developer, and is
definitely overstated. In any case, rewrites are not inherently bad
news, there's a bunch of OpenZFS videos from last yearss summit in
which the developers talk about various things being completely
rewritten from scratch, some things more than twice. So kinda par for
the course, and given enough time things get rewritten anyway. XFS has
had substantial changes over its history including numerous on disk
format changes even before it found its way onto Linux.
--
Chris Murphy