On Tuesday 23 July 2013 10.33:30 Jeff Mahoney wrote:
Hi all -
In another thread, someone posted about wanting an updated btrfsprogs (it's coming, as soon as I finish writing this email). He mentioned it in terms of wanting to try out the RAID5 code.
One of the things that's made it possible for SUSE to support btrfs in our enterprise products is often overlooked in media reports and casual analysis: We limit the feature set we support. In SLE11 SP3, we actively limit the feature set without a mount option enabling access to those features. We don't enable compression or multi-volume file systems.
So, the question is: Is this something we should consider for openSUSE as well? The goal isn't to ever deny users access to the available features or to force them to rebuild the kernel to enable them, but to shield unsuspecting users from features that may not be fully baked yet. For example, the RAID5 code in particular is still fairly fragile.
-Jeff
If it make sense to disable certain feature, this could be introduced in openSUSE as well. BUT as we let users in 12.1, 12.2, 12.3 ( like me ) doing crazy tests on dedicated computers we should take care to not put them in a dead end. Like using raid1 raid10 & compression which work quite well. (at least no bug report on my side) -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot