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. See various comparison tables out there, including the one in my blog from three years ago (yes, it's a bit dated): https://www.suse.com/communities/conversations/data-is-customers-gold/ 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. And I changed my /home to btrfs last year for the same reason -- on my company and private systems. I even did some development in this area during last hack week: https://www.suse.com/communities/conversations/menu-du-jour-vivaneau-vert-su... But that might be off topic ...
It seems quite obvious to me that the default choice should be depending on what is suitable for the majority of use cases and provides the needed stability.
I can't complain about btrfs' stability.
It has been some time already available in Factory (and older openSUSE) releases. Do we know how big (the percentagewise) the happy btrfs userbase is? How do we avoid risking switching the default to something that only X% of the user base is happy with (with X being in the 5-20% area) ?
Well. Isn't this chicken-egg question the challenge for every new technology? Do we want to stop innovation based on that challenge? Happy - MgE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org