Hi, On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 04:23:31PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I suggest it go to the kernel bugzilla, not the openSUSE one.
Rather post it to the mailinglist or ask at IRC. kenrel bugzilla is down and nearly nobody looks there (although there are worth reports).
Btrfs is just not yet stable enough for openSUSE to consider it anything but experimental.
Correct. Have backups.
=== fyi Partially in hopes of convincing myself btrfs would be ready for 12.1, I put together a wiki page explaining how to install and run the filesystem test suite the xfs team maintains. I pointed the testing team at it, so they have run at least some automated btrfs tests.
I have packaged xfstests, https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=xfstests&project=home:dsterba:tools as I use them heavily and got tired of doing manual installation, namely for automatic testing. (The package needs xfsprogs from the same repo.)
Over time a lot of those tests have been expanded from xfs only to multiple filesystems or generic to linux.
I found btrfs failed 3 of the existing functional tests.
Failures: 075 112 254 (with the tumbleweed 3.0.0-rc7-4-desktop kernel. Similar failures with older kernels.)
075 and 112 do not fail for me at 3.1.0-rc6+, although 254 reports failure, but it's a minor one (just basic snapshot/subovl tests, this area deserves much harder testing).
I asked on the list that maintains the xfstests script to see if was a test bug, or a btrfs bugs. They said the tests should be fine, so they represent real btrfs bugs.
fyi: I don't know what those specific tests are, so maybe they should not be considered btrfs "ship stoppers". I just assumed that until all the pre-existing tests pass, btrfs will be considered experimental.
The failing tests are not ship-stoppers. There are 100+ commits between 3.0 and 3.1-rc, many of them stability and correctness fixes. Anybody using btrfs should try to stick to the latest kernel. And keep backups. The stable series received only small number of fixes. david -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org