Re: btrfs, broken design?
From: Hubert Kario <hidden>
Date: 2011-01-21 08:21:30
On Friday 21 of January 2011 09:11:57 Beno=EEt Thi=E9bault wrote:
Ok, thanks, I will read the project wiki more carefully then :-) Beware however that Wikipedia is the first place to look for informat=
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for a lot of people (whether this is a good practice or not) and it currently does not provide a very good advertisement to btrfs.
It's still aimed more at experts than even to advanced users, though th= is will=20 change when btrfsck will become avaiable. =20
Le 21 janv. 2011 =E0 07:46, Chester a =E9crit :quoted
Btrfs has its own wiki page at https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org which =
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may find more helpful than what is on wikipedia. =20 2011/1/20 Beno=EEt Thi=E9bault [off-list ref]:quoted
Thanks for your answer =20 Le 20 janv. 2011 =E0 22:20, Chris Mason a =E9crit :quoted
There was a bug fixed as part of that discussion, and I think I a=
lso
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better described the way the tree balancing works to Edward.=20 Maybe the wikipedia article should be modified then, because it is=
not
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very reinsuring :-) =20quoted
A final release? We'll keep improving things for a long time. T=
he
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biggest missing feature today is btrfsck, which I'm working on fu=
ll
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time right now. =20 -chris=20 Still on the wikipedia page, it's written "Btrfs 1.0 (with finaliz=
ed
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on-disk format) was originally slated for a late 2008 release,[5] =
but a
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stable release has not been made as of January 2011.", which is al=
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very confusing. =20 According to you, is the version of btrfs in 2.6.37 ready for production? I mean, are there still chances that I may loose all m=
y
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data if I use btrfs? =20 Last question, do you know when the RAID-5 like capabilities will =
be
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available? =20 Sorry to ask so many questions, I fully understand you and your te=
am are
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working very hard on the project, but I was very confused by the Wikipedia article. =20 Kind regards, =20 Ben-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bt=
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