BTRFS in 2.6.31-rcwhatever

David Nielsen gnomeuser at gmail.com
Thu Jun 18 07:21:59 UTC 2009


2009/6/18 Matej Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com>

> Josef Bacik, Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:27:34 -0400:
> > Btrfs will not be as stable as ext4 currently is for at least another
> > year, so it is still very much just for testing.  I am very interested
> > in hearing about bugs and getting them fixed, however there will be
> > little to nothing that I can do if you lose data.
>
> And just to increase appetite of masochists among us, this is meant very
> seriously ... I have lost /var partitions on two computers (Fedora
> without /var/lib/rpm is very interestig animal). Pray without cessation
> and have your backups ready.


 Btrfs has been surprisingly good for me, no problems outside claiming the
partition was full when there was 25gb left (on a 120gb drive). I say bring
on this update, hilarity and dataloss, they do mix no matter what sanity
says.

- David
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