Plans for BTRFS in Fedora

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Wed Feb 23 19:52:40 UTC 2011


On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 07:49:49PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> You can't move PVs. You need a separate /boot. If you use more than one 
> disk then it adds significant fragility to the boot process. It slows 
> down booting. It provides some functionality that's hugely useful in a 
> small number of cases, and in every other case it just makes your life 
> more complicated. btrfs does the former without anywhere near as much of 
> the latter.

Also, the management tools are worse than AIX had in 1992. I'll accept 
that that's not an inherent flaw in the implementation, merely an 
inconvenient aspect of reality.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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