Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 03:36:10PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:12:34AM -0800, Zach Brown 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.
> >
> > I think both of us are making a subjective judgement.  For myself, I
> > "want to believe" in btrfs, having championed immutable
> > state/wandering trees, and real databases for many years.
> >
> > BUT I'm deeply unhappy about data corrupting bugs being effectively
> > ignored by upstream for months.  That's not good.
> >
> >
> I see no data corruption bugs that have been reported that are being
> ignored, link to the email?  The invalidate stuff was causing problems (not
> a btrfs problem, we just got hurt by it the most), and it looks like those
> were cleared up.  I'm working on the only data corruption problem I know of
> at the moment and it's not super clear its a data corruption problem.

The link is:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863978

Reported upstream here:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/20257

I'd love this to have been fixed upstream somewhere.  It is still
affecting Fedora, but we can pull in the fix if you can point to it.

Rich.

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