On 07/23/2013 09:33 AM, 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, This approach seems very sensible to me. Since the option to use btrfs appeared in the installation page, it has been selected by users who have little idea of the history of btrfs, and are not well prepared to handle fragility in their file systems. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org