Re: btrfs, broken design?
From: Chris Mason <hidden>
Date: 2011-01-20 21:20:30
Excerpts from Beno=C3=AEt Thi=C3=A9bault's message of 2011-01-20 16:06:= 21 -0500:
Hi everyone, =20 I am very interested in the features provided by btrfs. =20 I know it is still under active development and thus do not consider =
using it yet "in production", but the Wikipedia page describing btrfs c= ontains a very frightening sentence:
"Edward Shiskin, one of the Reiser4 developers now working for Redhat=
, got asked in Q2/2010 to look more detailled into Btrfs and judged tha= t it has a broken design. This design may lead in some cases to out of = space problems."
=20 I have read the linked mail exchange in the mailing list but it is ve=
ry technical and I am not quite sure I understood everything. Could you= please tell me if the problem has been fixed since? There was a bug fixed as part of that discussion, and I think I also better described the way the tree balancing works to Edward.
=20 Is there a planned date for the final release of btrfs?
A final release? We'll keep improving things for a long time. The biggest missing feature today is btrfsck, which I'm working on full tim= e right now. -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html