On Sunday, 26 February 2017 08:22:41 CET Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jurzitza wrote:
Dear listmembers, dear openSUSE - maintainers, I maintain about 5 to 6 PC running (openSUSE) linux. My own, my sisters my friends ... Currently most of them are running with leap.
During the last month I had to reinstall _all_ of them. All with broken / inconsitent / strange behaving root Btrfs file systems.
After 25 years of working with linux I'd consider myself kind of experienced what regards linux problems.
And, if that had had happened once I would have said it has been my fault. I do not think so any more. I consider Btrfs instable and inappropriate for public usage.
I'd go further and would like to ask, *why* this is set as the default root fs when installing. This is totally inunderstandable to me after my experiences.
I never ever experienced any bit of advantage in comparison with ext4. But I experienced nights of work - just to restore a state that had had existed a few days before.
So, please, think it over:
*take Btrfs out as default!*
Use stable and well known systems as the foundation of public systems. Changing things only to change something is leading nowhere.
Besides, if there is a kind soul that can explain what was the reason for making Btrfs the default I would highly appreciate. I cannot see any change besides significantly improved stability when going back to ext4. The latter being the most important thing IMHO.
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