Technical Spec, better upgrade/rollback control

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 21 09:57:02 UTC 2014


On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Christian Schaller
<cschalle at redhat.com> wrote:

> I think most times when this feature has been discussed it has been in the context of btrfs.
> I think the current text in the technical specification doesn't got deeper on the subject partly
> because we are all a little on the fence for at what time we feel confident enough about btrfs to
> dare propose it as the default filesystem for the desktop. I spoke with the btrfs developer at Red Hat
> during a conference on the US West Coast towards the end of last year, and he thought that btrfs was
> ready for the desktop usecase, although he was not ready to recommend it for server use due to the
> (small) risk of data corruption.

Sorry but I disagree here ... data corruption is not acceptable on a
desktop system either. A server usually
have multiple backups (if administered correctly) while a desktop most
of the time has none.


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