Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

[KaiRo - Robert Kaiser <kairo@xxxxxxxx>]

Matthias G. Eckermann schrieb:
> If btrfs should be considered as the default filesystem for
> openSUSE 11.4 -- this certainly depends on its maturity and its
> maturation over the next 5-6 months. I personally would enjoy to
> see btrfs to be default sooner than later:-)

Me as well, but right now, i.e. as of kernel 2.6.35's current state of 
btrfs, it would be a bad idea, I have seen issues here that cause 
dataloss and on-disk corruption that needs a reformat to fix it, as 
btrfsck can only diagnose the problem but not repair it, not even with 
losing the affected data.
In my case, I'm running btrfs on a partition that does heavy 
ccache-backed compile runs (Mozilla applications) and rsync it daily to 
a partition on a different disk with a more stable fs, and if corruption 
happens, it's almost exclusively in the ccache dir, which can be nuked 
without thinking twice, so I haven't actually lost data. I know this is 
still experimental, after all.
But from what I've seen, I can't recommend it for important data yet - I 
surely hope we'll get there, though!

Robert Kaiser
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