Matthias G. Eckermann wrote:
Hello Dirk and all,
On 2013-09-06 T 09:51 +0200 Dirk Müller wrote:
[...] what would be the personal reason for _me_ to switch or for the intended target group of openSUSE in general? [...] What are the alternatives to btrfs? How does it meet the majority of requirements better than the current default choice?
Besides Scalability there are other attributes where btrfs exceeds other filesystems.
I wouldn't think scalability is of much relevance to most openSUSE users. I don't remember seeing any threads about people coming up against filesystem limits. Except 2 TB in certain filesystems!
Yet, there is this _one_ point, which made me switch to btrfs for "/" since Februar 2011:
Peace of mind on adminstrative tasks (package updates and installations, configuration changes, ...) based on the snapshots / rollback capability.
That's where I personally like btrfs for and where I see unique capabilities.
But that feature is one that I think it has been agreed should be OFF by default, so again not a majority concern.
Well. Isn't this chicken-egg question the challenge for every new technology?
Do we want to stop innovation based on that challenge?
I'd suggest it might be a reasonable default for /home or /data and then after a year or two of no problems, make it the default for root. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org