On 23-07-2013 15:33, 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
Hi Jeff, I personally think we should have all the options available, but I do realise that this could be a major headache for all involved. If there was a way to have the bleeding edge features available for those that are more prepared to cut themselves, yet hidden from those that don't want the bloodshed then great. Failing having the happy medium, maybe the SLE team could advise on what features they think would make sense should they be stable enough and then we could test it to see how stable things really are. If things don't get tested and bugs reported it will never improve, so we almost need to implement the new features to get a better product. Regards, Andy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org