default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

James Wilson Harshaw IV jwharshaw at gmail.com
Fri Feb 28 06:07:43 UTC 2014


On 02/28/2014 01:03 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Feb 27, 2014, at 10:56 PM, James Wilson Harshaw IV <jwharshaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yet what was the main point that it wasn't ready yet?
> It was easy to miss if you don't know the name Josef Bacik, but he's one of the upstream Btrfs maintainers. He said here in this thread yesterday that it's not ready as a default. That's basically the end of the discussion of whether to make it the default.
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>> My point is we should choose the best solution, even if it takes a little more work to get it up and running.
> It's not the best solution as a default when the people working on it full time say it's not ready to be the default.
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>> I want to know what it will take to make sure btrfs is good to go as default and then see if the end result will out weigh the effort put in.
> What it will take: it needs more time in the oven.
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> Chris Murphy
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I apologize, I guess I did not get the whole background out of it.

What filesystems are we considering?

James Harshaw


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