Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15/08/10 14:24, KaiRo - Robert Kaiser wrote:
> 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

And me 3? I have had no issues with XFS ever since I switched when 
reiserfs seemed heading for the scrap heap.
Btrfs I've used as a backup of critical data for all my systems, though 
some stuff is backed up elsewhere. I have read that Btrfs has been 
acknowledged by ext4 folk as the successor. Also read that Linus uses it 
for his root filesystem.
My only data loss problems ever, back to the days when the Minix 
filesystem was used by Linux have been due to broken hardware - hard 
drives and IDE controllers.
Regards
Sid.
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