Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 18:24:25 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Zach Brown <zab at zabbo.net> wrote:
>> So there are a couple of issues with btrfs which I believe absolutely
>> must be fixed before it can become the default
>
> I'd agree, though I'd have a different list of pet bugs.
>
> But that's a subjective judgement.  I'd be the first to admit that I'm
> pretty risk averse, especially when it comes to losing data and
> rendering machines unbootable.
>
> Is there an existing set of criteria that Fedora would use to determine
> that btrfs is sufficiently reliable to use as the default for new
> installs?

Not really.  The de facto criteria would be "as stable as the current
default", which is ext4.  That is also somewhat subjective.

josh


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