Matthias G. Eckermann schrieb:
If btrfs should be considered as the default filesystem for openSUSE 11.4 -- this certainly depends on its maturity and its maturation over the next 5-6 months. I personally would enjoy to see btrfs to be default sooner than later:-)
Me as well, but right now, i.e. as of kernel 2.6.35's current state of btrfs, it would be a bad idea, I have seen issues here that cause dataloss and on-disk corruption that needs a reformat to fix it, as btrfsck can only diagnose the problem but not repair it, not even with losing the affected data. In my case, I'm running btrfs on a partition that does heavy ccache-backed compile runs (Mozilla applications) and rsync it daily to a partition on a different disk with a more stable fs, and if corruption happens, it's almost exclusively in the ccache dir, which can be nuked without thinking twice, so I haven't actually lost data. I know this is still experimental, after all. But from what I've seen, I can't recommend it for important data yet - I surely hope we'll get there, though! Robert Kaiser -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org