BTRFS: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

[Josef Bacik]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
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> Am 14.07.2011 03:57, schrieb Eric Sandeen:
>>> bleeeding edge / modern technology is not the same as dangerous defaults
>>> unstable / unfinsihed packages should never be default in GA nor replace
>>> existing and over a long time well working things - never!
>>
>> You might have said the same thing about ext4 in F<whatever it was>
>> and yet, here we are, shipping it as default for many releases now, with
>> little trouble.
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> ext4 is not written from scratch and it is a hughe difference
> if we are speaking from a improvement of ext2/ext3 with many
> years history on all sorts of setups (desktop, server, notebook)
>
> the troubles of lost kde settings was enough on crashes and yes
> i had the luck of a system-disk hangig some times exactly as
> this was discussed in a way "POSIX do not say what exactly
> happens after that, it says only the FS must be clean and
> not what data are there or not"
>
> virtual machines this time are really a normal thing and if
> there are hughe troubles now a FS should NOT be DEFAULT in a
> few months - why everytime this hurry? jesus one of the biggest
> benefits of open source is that there ar eno marketing idiots
> with release plans which forcing a release without enough testing
>
> so why do we not need this benefits and fire out permanently
> new technologies in a not understandable hurry?
>

Blah blah blah blah, that's all I hear out of you.  I've already said
that if it's not in good shape by Alpha the switch won't even be made,
so quit your bitching.

Josef