btrfs as default filesystem for F22?

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky znmeb at znmeb.net
Sun Oct 5 05:49:38 UTC 2014


I'm happy with ext4. Just out of curiosity, though, how is XFS working out
on RHEL 7?

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Ian Kent <raven at themaw.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 13:18 +0200, Juan Orti Alcaine wrote:
> > El 2014-10-03 11:38, Steven Whitehouse escribió:
> > > Hi,
> > > I should also add (just in case anybody gets the wrong idea!) that I
> > > think it should definitely be made as easy as possible for anybody who
> > > wants to evaluate running btrfs on Fedora, but it is far too early to
> > > make it the default yet,
> > >
> >
> > I agree with your opinion, it's a bit too early. An experienced user can
> > deal with the idiosyncrasies of btrfs and it's great when you learn it,
> > but pushing it as the default seems too adventurous.
> >
> > I want to add to the list of problems the performance degradation over
> > time in database-like files (journal, vm images, firefox and other
> > sqlite db). I have experienced minutes of delay consulting the journal
> > in heavily fragmented journal files.
>
> I still have to agree with not making btrfs the default.
>
> Sadly, I see BUG(), ENOSPC error reports (seem to have returned), and
> btrfs-progs SEGV reports on the btrfs mailing quite regularly and while
> much of the functionality may now be stable all the features of the
> default file system will get stressed more than the other file systems,
> including the perhaps not so stable ones.
>
> >
> > --
> > Juan Orti
> > https://miceliux.com
> >
>
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