On Sat, 26 Sep 2015, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 09/26/2015 02:45 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Unfortunately, I still do not trust btrfs.
There are a few architectural assumptions in BtrFS. Whether they were made consciously and explicitly, I don't know.
The idea of being able to support, spread a FS across multiple spindles in te various modes of striping & mirroring etc is not unique to btrFS, but there is a feeling of both "One Ring" and "Borg" to it.
By comparison I can have different LVs with different strategies using LVM.
I'd probably be happier ignoring the features of BtrFS, implement g it as if it were just another FS, and layering it on top of LVM.
I must say I feel the same way about it as you do, and I know much less about it than you do. BtrFS includes all manner of features into the filesystem layer that should logically belong to the partition manager such as LVM. That is why I prefer to not use BtrFS because I'm afraid that if tools are going to center around supporting BtrFS you will get a form of lock-in the way Apple is trying to get with their iPad ebooks. Apple is selling or providing an eBook author software in which the premium content can only be produced for Apple iPads. So if the market leverage starts to extend into +50% numbers of both authors and consumers using the premium content, that will shift the remaining authors into feeling that they too have to use this premium software or be left out, which will cause all content to only have a premium version for the Apple platform in due time. Which is Apple's goal, more or less. I don't think they are succeeding because I haven't heard about it for a long time, but the same could happen with BtrFS: if many tools start to feature or support it exclusively, you get "premium" functionality that will only work if you use BtrFS. I think LVM can actually do most or everything of what BtrFS can do at the filesystem level. Not sure. But it seems that way. And I think it is more elegant and less complicated. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org