On 31.12.16 20:32 Richard Brown wrote:
Rhetorical question - how will you deem it stable if you don't test it?
If you choose not to be a tester, then you are reliant on the opinions of other testers.
If you're reliant on opinions of other testers, then this one (who just so happens to be a Senior QA Engineer @ SUSE Linux GmbH) says that btrfs is stable and performant enough to be used as a default root filesystem in openSUSE & SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 and later. I am not alone in this opinion - If I was, I'm pretty sure openSUSE & SLE wouldn't have btrfs as their default root filesystems.
If you want to dismiss my opinion, you're more than welcome to and my feelings aren't hurt, but then I would say you have a responsibility to yourself and anyone listening to your opinion to actually do some testing and base your opinion on data of your own gathering.
Otherwise you're not really making a decision, you're just pretending to behind the mask of confirmation bias, and that leads to you missing opportunities to make use of new technologies.
I would say that is one very well put statement that I can truly agree to. Thanks Richard! And yes, I am also using btrfs for quite some time and in my use cases it works amazingly well... Johannes