On Friday 28 February 2014, Matthias G. Eckermann wrote:
Hello Stefan,
On 2014-02-28 T 10:48 +0100 Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Well, even Matthias probably wants to use a proven file system for backup purposes and not some bleeding edge experimental stuff ;-)
Why am I not surprised ...
My view: The standard filesystem stuff in btrfs plus the CoW functionality is damn stable, and this includes subvolumes, snapshots, and capabilities built upon.
There is other stuff, not yet mature, and Jeff Mahoney sent a nice table on this list last year where he listed the back-then valid status, see: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2013-09/msg00029.html The out-of-band deduplication is meanwhile upstream, and - as based on CoW - also stable.
You really should give btrfs a try (again?) ! ;-)
I also think btrfs is the future fs. No need to switch the default for just one or two years until btrfs is stable. So IMO first question is: Would we prefer btrfs or xfs, after btrfs will be stable?". If yes, then don't switch to xfs now. BTW it's just a default. People who know about file systems will use what they prefer anyway. But specially people without much knowledge shouldn't be bothered by changing defaults too often. cu, Rudi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org