Plans for BTRFS in Fedora

Ric Wheeler rwheeler at redhat.com
Fri Feb 25 13:56:44 UTC 2011


On 02/25/2011 08:52 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Ric Wheeler<rwheeler at redhat.com>  wrote:
>> On 02/25/2011 04:06 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Ric Wheeler<rwheeler at redhat.com>    wrote:
>>>> On 02/24/2011 08:44 AM, Matej Cepl wrote:
>>>>> Dne 23.2.2011 20:49, Matthew Garrett napsal(a):
>>>>>> btrfs does the former without anywhere near as much of the latter.
>>>>> BTRFS so far only makes my kernel panicking as it did anytime I have
>>>>> been trying it since Fedora 9 (yes, I am crazy). This is absolutely not
>>>>> meant as anything personal against Josef (I know very well how
>>>>> incredibly small group are BTRFS developers), but just a bit of
>>>>> suspicion, whether "we have fsck now (or we will have fsck soon)" really
>>>>> leads so quickly "let's make it default".
>>>>>
>>>>> I am quite OK with having crashing and unstable systemd or Gnome 3 (and
>>>>> again, nothing against their developers, this is Rawhide and Fedora, so
>>>>> when my kids are alive despite me using it I am pretty happy), but
>>>>> unstable file system is quite a different matter.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could we slow down a bit, please?
>>>>>
>>>>> Matěj
>>>> Can we have pointers to these crashes or BZ reports please? As Josef has
>>>> noted,
>>>> btrfs has been quite stable in our testing and we are certainly going to
>>>> pursue
>>>> any reports.
>>>>
>>>> Also note that the btrfs community of developers is not so small these
>>>> days and
>>>> rivals (if not surpasses) the size of the team working on ext4.
>>>>
>>>> Just to answer your last question,  we do not intend to "slow it down".
>>>>   Rather,
>>>> we hope to speed it up considerably by adding developers, testing and
>>>> users :)
>>> I've seen a number of crashes using 2.6.37 on a Dell 6410 using btrfs
>>> in a luks encrypted LVM volume. Sometimes its a message in dmesg,
>>> other times an out right crash. Each time it happens I submit the
>>> kernel oops using abrt, but unlike RHBZ reports you don't get a URL
>>> for the report so I have no idea where they get reported to but it
>>> might be worthwhile reviewing that information where ever it ends up.
>>>
>>> Peter
>> I think that it is probably best to report issues to the linux-btrfs list
>> where the developers are. If you report them via bugzilla, we will see them
>> directly there as well.
>>
>> Seems that we need to figure out where these abrt generated BZ's go, I have
>> not seen them come in via our normal bugzilla reports but might need to
>> figure out how to do specific queries for them.
> I think the kernel ones get submitted here http://kerneloops.org/ but
> if not you'd have to look closer at the abrt-addon-kerneloops for
> details on where its sent.
>
> Peter

Not sure who monitors all kernel oops reports, but I personally don't see them. 
If you have a btrfs issue (or other issue with fedora file systems), feel free 
to drop me an email to make sure that we know about it so we can have a look at 
it :)

ric



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