Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 01/18/2013 01:00 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Marc Deop Argemí <marc at marcdeop.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 16 January 2013 12:18:19 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689127
>>> (performance problem with virtual machines)
>>
>> I must add that, in my experience, the performance is *bad* not only in virtual machines but in the whole user experience (I've been using btrfs in my /home partition for a while now and I'm sorry to say that it's really slow compared to ext4).
>>
>> In my humble opinion, as of right now, btrfs is not yet ready to be used as default
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Marc
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> Yes, I'd veto btrfs as the default as well. I lost a huge chunk of
> data on a btrfs partition a while back, with *no* diagnostics,
> recovery tools, help from Google, etc. Screw speed - unless it's rock
> solid and *simple* to back up, maintain, diagnose and manage, I won't
> use it.
>
>
The most helpful approach would be provide bug reports, when btrfs will 
be proposed as a default file system (again). Without bug reports, real 
numbers etc. is hard to make any decision. I don't wish to test on my 
machine, so I would be glad for hard data from others ;-)

(btw the typo in subject is terrible).

Marcela