On 12/31/2016 02:32 PM, Richard Brown wrote:
On 31 December 2016 at 17:36, Ken Schneider - Factory
wrote: No, I can not agree with that. Simply put, I do not trust btrfs reliability, and many agree with this. When btrfs has been stable for 10 years (with nearly no new features), I'll reconsider. I have heard too many bad histories of problems.
I fully agree with Carlos, until *I* deem it stable I will not even attempt to use it. And I mean no disrespect to the developers, without testers bugs cannot be found and eliminated. I choose *not* to be a tester, period! 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.
And that would be a shame in my opinion.
Happy New Year With all due respect Richard I fully appreciate all of the hard work *all* of the developers and testers do. But at my age and health issues I have I need as few problems as possible from my electronic devices. I'm to the point where learning new things is becoming extremely difficult, and I'm sure many long users of openSUSE feel the same way. If I had the ability to be a developer I would contribute as well. But you do realize that not everyone has that ability.
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