On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Roman Bysh
On 03/19/2011 03:23 PM, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
Btrfs will benefit users because it has built in *elastic* volume management via subvolumes. This means that users get the flexibility of having "separate" file systems without having to pre-determine how much space to allocate to each.
Built-in snapshots that don't use a pool of storage outside the filesystem to do the copy-on-write, like LVM snapshots use, mean that "zypper dup" can be rolled back. It should be possible to make this part of the process so it's seamless to the user.
There's more, but writing an email on my mobile kinda sucks.
-Jeff
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On Mar 19, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Per Jessen
wrote: Kim Leyendecker wrote:
what kind of answer do you need? Administrative ones? who take the actual decision?
I don't know, but would like to I think he wants an answer that just say, btrfs has this and this and
Am 19.03.2011 13:29, schrieb jdd: they and they want to have it as default too.
I think you guys are missing the point completely. Try to think of the large majority of openSUSE users and then answer the question:
"What are the reasons for changing the openSUSE default filesystem to btfrs?"
Answers using this template please:
"We should make btrfs the default filesystem in openSUSE because the vast majority [= at least 80%] of openSUSE users will significantly benefit from the following new features or qualities:
[please list at least two].
Please bear in mind that the latter MUST be 1) not offered by the current default filesystem and 2) distinctly beneficial to the end-user.
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I really like the snapshot feature to allow the user to roll back to an earlier snapshot. Not available on ext4.
This would benefit users.
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Roman
There are solid ext3 patches floating around for that and reasonable proof of concept patches for ext4. If snapshots is the primary goal, I say get those ext4 patches into the opensuse factory kernel and start testing. I suspect that is more doable than resolving the btrfs (gpl2) / grub (gpl3) licensing issues. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org